No other London borough has such a choice of vibrant, diverse and contrasting street markets. Each one is an open space event that gives you a genuine taste and flavour of east London. You must book your one hour free session using the RingGo app or calling the number on the sign plate (56 spaces) Columbia Road Flower Market (Sundays)

So, here we have it, on the jamb of the open doorway, which also indicates the location of the large piece of apron, being below the graffiti, at the foot of the jamb, and just as noticable to anyone passing along the sidewalk. It appears that these lights provided sufficient illumination to write graffiti on the inside of the building. We know that it rained earlier, around the time of another murder [Stride’s, over in Berner Street]. It may therefore have been cloudy, so cloudy that any ambient moonlight that was possibly present was how the Ripper was able to see what he was writing on the wall. Of course, he may also have been carrying a box of matches. Author Stephen Knight suggested that "Juwes" referred not to "Jews", but to Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum, the three killers of Hiram Abiff, a semi-legendary figure in Freemasonry, and furthermore, that the message was written by the killer (or killers) as part of a Masonic plot. [21] There is no evidence that anyone prior to Knight had ever referred to those three figures by the term "Juwes". [22] Knight's suggestion was used in fictional treatments of the murders, such as the film Murder by Decree, and the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell and the film of the same name starring Johnny Depp. In fairness to Sir Charles Warren, many of those who saw the graffito commented that it looked faded, as though it had been there for some time.It’s actually irrelevant whether anyone makes or made sense of it, now or then. What’s important is that it appeared to be relevant at the time and was treated as a clue, despite the terrible transcription of the message. We know, for example, that at the moment that Catherine Eddowes was leading her murderer-to-be into Mitre Square, three City Detectives, Daniel Halse, Robert Outram and Edward Marriot, were busily orchestrating plain clothes patrols along the City's eastern fringe. Aldgate (Metropolitan, Circle);Aldgate East (Hammersmith & City, District);Bethnal Green Rail (London Overground);Whitechapel (District, Hammersmith & City, London Overground) Chrisp Street Market (Monday to Saturday)

At the Eddowes Inquest, Detective Halse said '...the writing had the appearance of being recently written...', then in The Daily Telegraph, Oct 12, in response to a question of "why did you say it seemed to have been recently written?" Halse responded, "it looked fresh, and if it had been done long before it would have been rubbed out by the people passing..." Graffiti of all kinds was not unusual, in fact it had proliferated since the murder of Annie Chapman, so there is no reason to think of this as anything special. The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Goulston Street, Tower Hamlets, London, E1 7TP is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2021.

Chrisp Street Market (Monday to Saturday)

The northern half of the street came under the scrutiny of the Metropolitan Board of Works when the Cross Act of 1875 earmarked it for demolition on account of its dangerous slum tenements. At the same time, properties in George Yard and the Flower and Dean Street area were also suggested for redevelopment. The resulting changes in Goulston Street meant that unsanitary dwellings in Three Tun Alley (on the west side) and Goulston Court (on the east) were wiped out, along with much of the west side of Goulston Street itself. Now we have a better idea of why P.C. Long stated quite firmly at the inquest '...I passed that spot where the apron was found about 2.20am the apron was not there when I passed then' and the fifth from Sir Robert Anderson, who gives it as: ‘The Jewes are not the men to be blamed for nothing,’ in 1910, 22 years after the crimes, which was [sorry, Sir Robert but this may be another one of your ‘definitely ascertained facts’] discussed in a daily paper. Anderson was not even in the country at the time of the Double Event. It may be worth recalling that the two eyewitnesses to the GSG, Long and Halse, along with Inspector Swanson’s recollection, are united in the fact that the letter ‘U’ is the accepted second letter, despite the two ways the word believed to be there is written: Juwes and Juews.

It was the northern half of the street which came under the scrutiny of the Metropolitan Board of Works when the Cross Act of 1875 earmarked it for demolition on account of its dangerous slum tenements. At the same time, properties in George Yard and the Flower and Dean Street area were also suggested for redevelopment. The resulting changes in Goulston Street meant that unsanitary dwellings in Three Tun Alley (on the west side) and Goulston Court (on the east) were wiped out, along with much of the west side of Goulston Street itself. [5] Having murdered Catherine Eddowes, on the 30th September 1888, the Whitechapel Murderer fled eastwards from Mitre Square and headed into the East End of London where he left a clue in a doorway in Goulston Street, a short walk away from Mitre Square. WHY HE WENT EAST? The market is just a stone's throw away from the internationally renowned York Hall, and within walking distance from the trendy Shoreditch, and sells a wide range of items from clothes to fruit and vegetables. Location It may be realised therefore if the safety of the Jews in Whitechapel could be considered to be jeopardised 13 days after the murder by the question of the spelling of the word Jews, what might have happened to the Jews in that quarter had that writing been left intact. It is a clue in so much as it reveals to us the direction that the ripper took as he fled from Mitre Square in the wake of the murder of Catherine Eddowes.The answer to these questions will be known when we find the exact location of the graffiti, where was it written, on what portion of wall?

In a confidential memorandum from Sir Charles Warren to Henry Mathews, we find specific mention of the location: In fact there had been no mention of Eddowes cut apron until the body was being stripped in Golden Lane mortuary, it may not have been obvious that she was wearing an apron until the body was at the mortuary. Daniel Halse suggested a compromise whereby only the top line, - "The Juwes are" - would be erased. The evidence provided certain clues about the Ripper’s behaviour on the night, which was the same evening Elizabeth Stride had been killed. Having murdered two people in an hour, the area would have been filling with police officers. The positioning of the apron in a doorway to the east of Mitre Square suggests the Ripper must have dropped it while he fled the scene rapidly and was going to ground. Established in 1888, you’ll find everything from bustling flea-markets, authentic ethnic street food and household goods here. There are also jewellery stalls and retro fashion boutiques for you to browse through. Location

Roman Road Market (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday)

Long told an inquest that it read, "The Juwes [ sic] are the men that will not be blamed for nothing." [2] Superintendent Arnold wrote a report which agrees with his account. [3] Most notably, the spelling of the word 'Juwes' became an important element of the Royal Conspiracy Theory in the 1970s. Stephen Knight claimed that the 'Juwes' were Jubelo, Jubela and Jubelum, the assasins of Hiram Abiff, chief architect of Solomon's temple in Masonic lore [14]. Resolved, that this Board regards with horror and alarm the several atrocious murders recently perpetrated within the district of Whitechapel and its vicinity, and calls upon Sir Charles Warren so to regulate and strengthen the police force in the neighbourhood as to guard against any repetition of such atrocities.” The honest truth is that we will never now know the answer to this puzzling question. THE GOULSTON STREET GRAFFITO IS DISCOVERED Det. Halse: '....when Detective Hunt returned inquiry was made at every door of every tenement of the model dwelling-house, but we gained no tidings of anyone who was likely to have been the murderer...'