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The Ten Bells: The Pub That Waited for Jack the Ripper

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They stood at the bar and made a choice: buy a bed for the night, or buy enough gin to forget the cold. They chose the gin. And then they met Jack the Ripper.

The Ten Bells in Spitalfields is famous as "Jack the Ripper's Pub." It was the waiting room for his victims; Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly drank here minutes before they died. But behind the Victorian tiles and the ghost stories lies a darker history of poverty, desperation, and a "Potman" who refuses to leave the attic.

In this episode of British Pub Lore, we look past the Ripper myth to the reality of 1888. We investigate the "Slashed Baby Clothes" found behind a water tank, the legend of the landlord murdered with an axe (and the Swansea truth), and the heartbreaking economics of the "Gin Palace."

In this episode:
GIN ???? The Calculation: Why a quartern of gin was cheaper than a bed (and why that killed them).
AXE ???? The Ghost: The truth about George Roberts and the "Man in the Bed."
BABY ???? The Nursery: The terrifying discovery of slashed clothes in the attic.
TILES ????️ The Irony: How the beautiful Victorian interior was designed to hide the filth of the slums.
RIPPER ???? The Victims: The final hours of Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly.

Key Locations:

The Ten Bells (Commercial Street)
Spitalfields Market
Miller's Court (The site of Mary Kelly's murder)

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