Hanbury Street
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Hanbury Street is a street in Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the East End of London.
In the early morning of 9 August 1888, the mutilated body of prostitute Annie Chapman was found in the garden of #29 Hanbury Street. Like other prostitutes, Chapman regularly entertained clients there, gaining access to the garden by a door on the front of the building, usually unlocked, that provided access to a narrow passage through the building to the rear.
Chapman is generally held to have been the second victim of Jack the Ripper.
Today, buildings with shops below and flats above can still be found on the south side of Hanbury Street, across from the murder site. But #29, which was on the north side of the street, no longer exists, having been demolished. The Old Truman Brewery was extended to cover the entire block north of Hanbury street; and since 2004 this has been the site of Sunday (Up)Market [1].
