The Ripper Connection Berner Street, Dutfield Yard

The Jack the Ripper Connection, Dutfield Yard Berner Street Whitechapel London, .
Where they found the Rippers third victim Elizabeth Stride.
Theories and possibilities abound but still no one has dicovered the identity of Jack the Ripper, . Was he, or perhaps a she? connected to nobility or was it the American Doctor. Who knows, but one thing for sure is that it will remain perhaps the greatest crime mystery in British History.
This model in O gauge depicts Berner Street in 1909. I changed the empty shop into a end of terrace pub, the other terraced buildings are as they wedre in that period.
Dutfield Yard which was to be found directly after the end terrace will be the subject of another model.

The absolute joy of model making is that History can always be a part of the creators lives. I looked at this model in the half light and imagined Victorian London and the terraced streets of flat roofed dwellings in yellow brick. How it must have felt to  walk through those dark terraces of Whitechapel knowing that the knife was but a foot fall away.