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Dorset Street (Spitalfields)

For the street in Marylebone, London, see Marylebone § Streets. For the street in Dublin, see Dorset Street, Dublin.

Dorset Street photographed in 1902 and used in Jack London's book The People of the Abyss. The camera is at the western end of the road, pointing east: Miller's Court was on the left hand side at the far end.
The site of Dorset Street in 2006, again looking west to east. Miller's Court was located on the left side of this photograph.

Dorset Street, originally known as Datchet Street, was a street in Spitalfields, East London, once situated at the heart of the area's rookery. By repute it was "the worst street in London",[1] and it was the scene of the brutal murder of Mary Jane Kelly by Jack the Ripper on 9 November 1888. The murder was committed at Kelly's lodgings which were situated at No. 13, Miller's Court, entered from a passageway between 26 and 27, Dorset Street.

The road was renamed Duval Street in 1904, before having its north side demolished in 1928 during the rebuilding of Old Spitalfields Market, and the buildings on the south side replaced by a car park in the 1960s. The site was built over during redevelopment of the Fruit and Wool Exchange in the 2010s.

  1. ^ Rule 2008, p. 164.

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