The Ten Bells
Ten Bells is a Victorian public house on the corner of Commercial Street / Fournier Street in London's district of Spitalfields .
history
There has been a public house on the site since 1752, but the current building dates from the Victorian era . Most of the original interior design was replaced over time, the extensive decorative tiles were retained. A tiled panel on the back wall of the pub is titled Spitalfields in ye Olden Time (translation: Spitalfields in its old days) and was designed by Wm B. Simpson and Sons in the late 19th century .
At the end of the 19th century, the pub became widely known in connection with the series of murders attributed to Jack the Ripper . The two victims Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly were regular guests. In 1976 The Ten Bells was renamed The Jack the Ripper and souvenirs related to the Jack the Ripper case were also offered. In 1988, the brewery ordered the renaming to The Ten Bells after Reclaim the Night , an action against violent crimes with a sexual background, demanded in a long-running campaign that a woman murderer should not be hyped up in this way.
The Ten Bells has been listed as a Grade II building since 1972 and is therefore a listed building .
reception
The Ten Bells appears in almost all media adaptations of the Jack the Ripper case in some way. For example, in the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell , it is portrayed as a striptease bar. In the film of the same name , which is based on the graphic novel, you see Inspector Abberline (played by Johnny Depp ) in The Ten Bells drinking with ripper victim Mary Jane Kelly.
literature
- Mark Girourard: Victorian Pubs. 2nd Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven CT 1984, ISBN 0-300-03199-8 .
- Donald Rumbelow . The Complete Jack the Ripper (True Crime). Fully revised and updated edition. Penguin Books Ltd. London 2004, ISBN 0-14-017395-1 .
Web links
- Inside view of The Then Bells on www.jacktheripper.de ( QuickTime plug-in required; 1.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Girourard. Victorian pubs . 1984, p. 158
- ↑ Images of England - Extract from the database of listed buildings in England.Retrieved September 30, 2010
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '9.5 " N , 0 ° 4' 28.1" W.