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Flower and Dean Street was a road at the heart of the Spitalfields rookery in the East End of London. It was one of the most notorious slums of the Victorian era, being described in 1883 as "perhaps the foulest and most dangerous street in the whole metropolis", and was closely associated with the victims of Jack the Ripper. A 2008 Scotland Yard geographical profile of Jack the Ripper concluded that he most probably lived in the street where two of his victims lived. The Flower and Dean Walk housing estate is directly across Commercial Street from the historic site of the street.

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  • Flower and Dean Street était une rue située au cœur des quartiers pauvres de Spitalfields, dans l'East End londonien. (fr)
  • Flower and Dean Street was a road at the heart of the Spitalfields rookery in the East End of London. It was one of the most notorious slums of the Victorian era, being described in 1883 as "perhaps the foulest and most dangerous street in the whole metropolis", and was closely associated with the victims of Jack the Ripper. A 2008 Scotland Yard geographical profile of Jack the Ripper concluded that he most probably lived in the street where two of his victims lived. The Flower and Dean Walk housing estate is directly across Commercial Street from the historic site of the street. (en)
  • Flower and Dean Street era una calle situada en el corazón de los barrios pobres de Spitalfields, en el East End londinense. En la época victoriana, estaba reputada como una de las peor frecuentadas de esa zona, y entre otras cosas asociada a las muertes atribuidas a Jack the Ripper en 1888, dado que dos de sus víctimas habitaban en inmuebles con frente a esta calle, y dado que varios de los asesinatos fueron cometidos no lejos de este eje. En 1865 la calle fue citada por el artista Ford Madox Brown como el epítome de la degradación social, en su explicación de su lienzo Work. (es)
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  • Flower and Dean Street was a road at the heart of the Spitalfields rookery in the East End of London. It was one of the most notorious slums of the Victorian era, being described in 1883 as "perhaps the foulest and most dangerous street in the whole metropolis", and was closely associated with the victims of Jack the Ripper. Land was acquired by the Fossan brothers in the mid 17th century. At that time it consisted of the southern part of Lolesworth Field, a tenterground to its south and a spinning and twisting ground with gardens to the south of that. The brothers built a street through the field which was named after them, which became Fashion Street. They split the tenterground into two long parcels and employed two bricklayers, John Flower and Gowan Dean, to build houses along its length. By the nineteenth century the back gardens of the original tenements had been built on for narrow courts and alleys and the area had become a slum. The poverty and deprivation of the area was reflected by the greatest concentration of common lodging-houses in London. In 1871 there were 31 such places in the street. They provided accommodation for the desperate and the destitute and were a focus for the activities of local thieves and prostitutes. Already in 1865 the street was referred to by the artist Ford Madox Brown as the epitome of social degradation in his description of his painting Work. Brown describes a vagabond depicted in the picture as living in Flower and Dean Street, "haunt of vice", "where the policemen walk two and two, and the worst cut-throats surround him". Slum clearance began 1881–83. In 1888, the sanguinary activities of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, also known as the Whitechapel murders, prompted further redevelopment. Two of those women murdered, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, resided in two common lodging-houses on the street. A study using geographical profiling suggested that the killer probably lived on the street. The scandal of the killings prompted 'respectable' landlords to divest themselves of property here and all traces of the street were virtually eradicated between 1891 and 1894 in a major slum clearance programme. There is now a housing block where the street used to be. A 2008 Scotland Yard geographical profile of Jack the Ripper concluded that he most probably lived in the street where two of his victims lived. The Flower and Dean Walk housing estate is directly across Commercial Street from the historic site of the street. (en)
  • Flower and Dean Street était une rue située au cœur des quartiers pauvres de Spitalfields, dans l'East End londonien. (fr)
  • Flower and Dean Street era una calle situada en el corazón de los barrios pobres de Spitalfields, en el East End londinense. En la época victoriana, estaba reputada como una de las peor frecuentadas de esa zona, y entre otras cosas asociada a las muertes atribuidas a Jack the Ripper en 1888, dado que dos de sus víctimas habitaban en inmuebles con frente a esta calle, y dado que varios de los asesinatos fueron cometidos no lejos de este eje. En 1865 la calle fue citada por el artista Ford Madox Brown como el epítome de la degradación social, en su explicación de su lienzo Work. En 1883, la calle Flower and Dean fue descrita como « tal vez la calle más infame y peligrosa de toda la metrópoli ».​ Esta calle fue abierta en la década de los años 1650, y fue parcialmente reconstruida en el siglo XVIII. La denominación de esta vía deriva de la deformación de los nombres de dos albañiles locales, John Gower y Gowen Deane, quienes participaron en su construcción. En el siglo XIX, el barrio alrededor de esta calle se fue deteriorando progresivamente, debido a la construcción allí de varios apartamentos comunitarios (exactamente fueron 31 en 1871 sobre la calle Flower and Dean), que tradicionalmente acogieron una población muy pobre y desprotegida, lo que ciertamente aumentó en la zona la criminalidad y la prostitución. El barrio comenzó a ser parcialmente reacondicionado en el período 1881-1883, y en 1888, las muertes de Elizabeth Stride y de Catherine Eddowes, que habitaban ambas sobre esta calle, impulsaron reacondicionamientos suplementarios. La calle finalmente fue completamente arrasada entre 1891 y 1894, en oportunidad de un importante programa de reacondicionamiento y limpieza.​ En nuestros días, un inmueble​ ha sido construido en el antiguo emplazamiento de la citada calle. (es)
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