Mary Nichols - Jack the Ripper's 1st Victim.

Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols was murdered in the early hours of Friday the 31st of August, 1888, in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, and is generally thought of as the the first of the canonical five victims of Jack the Ripper.

In this video, we follow the course of her life, from her birth in Shoe Lane, off Fleet Street, in the City of London, on August 26th, 1845, through her early adult years when she married William Nichols, by whom she would have five children.

You will see the place where the marriage took place, and view the south London estate where the family had their first real home.

We follow her downward spiral, as he alcoholism took its toll on her private life, causing her to separate from her husband and abandon her children. We see the Workhouse in which she spent varying amounts of time on and off between 1880 and 1888, and other locations which she frequented, including the street where she lodged at her father's house for a, and the street where the couple lived at whose house she worked as a servant in 1888, and from which she wrote a letter to her father which gives a real insight into what type of person she was.

In early August, 1888, she found her way to the East End of London, where she resided at two common lodging houses. We hear testimony from those who knew her during this period and feature some locations that still survive which she visited or frequented during the last three weeks of her life.

The story then takes us to August, 31st, 1888, when, lacking the fourpence that would pay for her bed in the lodging house, she was forced out onto the streets of Whitechapel where she met her killer and went with him to a dark gateway in Buck's Row, oblivious to the danger she was in.

The final section of the video, features the police investigation into her murder, discusses the inquest into her death and then covers her funeral, which took place on the Thursday after her death.

Combining footage of the locations as they are today, with evocative images and illustrations that show them as they were in 1888, this film gives a vivid and detailed insight into the life and death of Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of the killer who would become known as "Jack the Ripper."

Видео Mary Nichols - Jack the Ripper's 1st Victim. канала Jack The Ripper Tour