Foggy morning in Whitechapel

Whitechapel is part of the densely populated "East End" of London, just a few kilometres from the financial centre of the city.

Whilst it is currently undergoing rapid gentification, in the 19th century Whitechapel was a decaying, overcrowded maze of squalid, dark alleyways and backstreets plagued by extreme poverty, disease and crime. It was in this environment that the notorious Jack The Ripper claimed his first victim, Mary Ann Nicholson, just 20 metres down the same street where our studio is based!