tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9757991.post5995191717824731595..comments2023-03-26T04:40:44.435-03:00Comments on Buick City Complex: the evening beforePerfect Virgohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17842802482293784692noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9757991.post-26713135920291743062010-02-15T08:29:52.988-04:002010-02-15T08:29:52.988-04:00Or even VICTORIAN'SOr even VICTORIAN'SRussell CJ Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00519621428036481426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9757991.post-62528528421190364012010-02-15T08:25:21.418-04:002010-02-15T08:25:21.418-04:00The odd thing that I find of personal interest is ...The odd thing that I find of personal interest is that my paternal grandfather and his wife were both born in 1878. He in Bow and she in Poplar. Now Bow was the East End even then but Poplar wasn't, it was Middlesex!. But all that to one side, by 1888 Granddad would have been a ten year old lad living very near to where those awful murders were committed. He was a nice, gentle man (Granddad not Jack) and one who would have grown up with coal fires and coaches, gas light and bathing once a week. Within such a short time, less than one hundred years, seventy six to be precise, the world had moved on. Moved on that is except for man's arcane ability to brutalise his fellow man. That has remained constant. The only connection between that time and mine was my parents generation and they too seem a million miles away from those Victotian’s.Russell CJ Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00519621428036481426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9757991.post-57998611470127680642010-02-12T11:53:47.042-04:002010-02-12T11:53:47.042-04:00CJ - thanks for tagging along, I think you'll ...CJ - thanks for tagging along, I think you'll enjoy it. On the Ripper front, many indisputable facts and events are known. But for all the press reports, coroner's reports and witness statements we know little or nothing about the killer.<br /><br />I am trying to fill in the gaping void with some speculative thoughts. I envisage a dozen of these vignettes, perhaps acting as a kind of movie trailer - little snippets of action to whet the appetite.<br /><br />Little M - I love the period. I am amazed that people actually managed to thrive under such harsh conditions: no advanced technology, no electricity, no central heating, a primitive police force, horse and cart transport... I think the people who lived and bred through this era and earlier were more "real" than today.<br /><br />With hundreds of London ancestors in my Genealogy files I have a personal interest in the social history of Victorian London as it fleshes out the bare bones of my research. As you know, I have several coins in my collection dated 1888. They would have been newly minted at the time of the Whitechapel murders and I love to imagine whose pockets they may have been in!Perfect Virgohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17842802482293784692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9757991.post-83780571681966388972010-02-12T10:36:46.096-04:002010-02-12T10:36:46.096-04:00You have genuine affection for this era don't ...You have genuine affection for this era don't you? You and your coins and your stamps and your stories.<br /><br />I like it.<br /><br />And I like to see you writing again!Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693795343641111526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9757991.post-16175366906081794302010-02-12T07:27:21.964-04:002010-02-12T07:27:21.964-04:00I have no idea where you are going with this eithe...I have no idea where you are going with this either but I am enjoying the ride where everit takes me.Russell CJ Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00519621428036481426noreply@blogger.com