Jack the Ripper: Jack the Ripper. Whitechapel, Whitechapel Murders, George Lusk, Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, ... Smith, The Whitehall Mystery, Donald Swanson
Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
1210 Hrs GMt London Tuesday 03 November 2009 KHOODEELAAR! TOLD the 'East London Idiotiser' so ONE YEAR 3 months ago, about the CRASSrole playing T H Council assault on market traders…. It has taken the IDIOTISER that long just to get a bit of the facts involved. Today, Tuesday 3 November 2009, the IDIOTOSER has published an item on its web site saying that ‘red tape’ is ‘killing...
It may well be the Last Post next year for London’s unique other underground which was closed and mothballed in 2003. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow gauge driverless private underground railway in London built by the Post Office to move mail between sorting offices. This 2 foot gauge 6.5mile railway was opened in 1927 and at its peak run between Paddington Sorting...
KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
2335 GMT London Sunday 4 October 2009 " The Crossrail Bill was the subject of widespread KHOODEELAAR! Campaign Activities today [Tuesday 23 May 2006] when MPs belonging to the Commons Crossrail Bill Select committee toured the Brick Lane and Whitechapel area targeted for a series of Crossrail hole attacks provisions. " UK Home office minister Tony McNulty has been sacked at the behest of...
It may well be the Last Post next year for London’s unique other underground which was closed and mothballed in 2003. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow gauge driverless private underground railway in London built by the Post Office to move mail between sorting offices. This 2 foot gauge 6.5mile railway was opened in 1927 and at its peak run between Paddington Sorting...
Communities Against Drugs and Alcohol Abuse (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
At 6:30am on Monday 21st September the horrific murder of a 24-year-old man took place in Moss Close, Old Montague St, Whitechapel. Information regarding the case confirms that drug dealing was a factor in this murder. CADAA is aware that local residents have been reporting for some time that drug dealing in this area has been on the rise. One member of the local community reported to us: ‘Many...
Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
1130 [1115] [0820] Hrs GMT London Saturday 29 August 2009: KHOODEELAAR! Telling Boris Johnson to stop peddling CRASSrail and to start being truthful. Quit talking crass Boris. Why? For a start, Boris Johnson is increasingly coming across as being untenably ignorant. How this level of ignorance can be allowed in someone who is supposed to be making decisions about matters that significantly affect ordinary...
Despite a last minute hitch with the organiser incapacitated and unable to attend, the London Red, Urban Story walk hiked it through housing and industrial estates from Waltham Cross to Shadwell yesterday, following a line through some of the city's most deprived areas, as classified and colour coded by London Profiler . For sure this is a different perspective on London walking, shunning green spaces,...
The London Olympic infrastructure is flying up with incredible speed and the park which will be left behind after the Games promises to be stunning. But beyond the venues and the transport infrastructure, evidence of legacy is harder to find. A lot of 'legacy' initiatives are simply repackaged initiatives or - as in the case of Forest Hill swimming pool - much-needed projects being hurried through...
London: Ramadan anti-smoking campaign HEALTH chiefs are using the approach of the Muslim festival of Ramadan to help smokers in London’s East End kick the habit. A campaign has been started by NHS Tower Hamlets to “make Ramadan a good time to stop.” It has been launched in time for the month-long festival which starts on August 22 when Muslims have to ditch their cigarettes as well...
The Blind Beggar is a public house in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel. It was built in 1894 on the site of another inn, established before 1654, and named after the legend of Henry de Montfort, a son of Simon de Montfort. In the legend, Henry was wounded and lost his sight in the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and was nursed to health by a baroness,...
The Centre of the Cell, based in Whitechapel, have a timely and educational game that simulates a flu outbreak in Tower Hamlets . You play the role of Health Minister and are asked to make the difficult decisions as cases of the flu increase. Should you ban public gatherings? Force the closure of schools? Ban kissing? It's not easy managing the greatest threat to human health in 40 years. The site...
Following on from the Rudolf Rocker and Eleanor Marx stuff I posted, here's some more East End radical history and radical present: Ian Bone: Daily Mail and the cops attack Peter The Painter and his Tower Hamlets legacy Whitechapel Anarchist Group: newly formed group with cool freesheet and blog October means the Anarchist Book Fair , this year in the East End. One of the highlights include an appearance...