Photo: Fish & Chip shop in Whitechapel Today we not only nailed our unofficial steps count but doubled them - and can’t we feel it tonight! We met my cousin Tina Carver Mead and her husband Graham Carver for lunch at the Hoop & Grapes pub, in Whitechapel - we stayed with them when we first arrived in England (in Cambridge). This pub was built in 1593 and survived the Great Fire of London in 1666 by a mere 50 yards! Tina and I have common ancestors who lived in and near Whitechapel at the time of the Jack the Ripper (JTR) murders; and so she took us on a personal tour of where the family and subsequent families lived and worked. And then the 4 of us did an official JTR tour, which numbered about 18-20 people. The tour was excellent. If ever you get the chance to do it, then do it! And that folks, was today! Commentary from some pics I posted on Facebook but without the pics: Photo of a shop called Jack the Chipper (fish & chip shop) - There are places around the i...
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