Berwick Street

We were actually at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

And behind the theatre, of course, was Berwick Street with all the, you know, the totters and people.

And she would literally raid the dustbins and she would go to the stalls and buy the cheapest fruit and veg going, you know.

And there's Sir Alec, you know, going to Fortnum's every day and dining out very gracefully twice a day at least.

Right, so One Stop is South Molton Street?

Which was the one that was on the corner of Berwick Street.

One Stop was in South Molton Street, was it? Is that it? Maybe I make the wrong-

Well, they had more than one.

They had more than one.

Yeah.

Corner of Berwick Street.

Oh, I dunno.

And I used to not have, I used to have a sprinkling of fashion items and fashion colours.

But all of it was, I'd go to the old warehouses that supply costume jewellery, which was Berwick Street.

And

I'd go into their warehouse and buy all the old stock, Diamante and black and gold.

... um, I ended up hanging out in the printmaking department a lot more, and the letterpress, and I learnt...

I actually even, um, like textiles became quite a huge part of my practice there, like walking down Berwick Street in, um, Soho and kind of seeing like all these like European linens and I had worked in art supplies, so at Melbourne Etching Supplies for a long time prior to going overseas.

So like materials are really important to me, like really understanding the origin of something and yeah, like being in the place where a lot of these things come from, like going into Cornelison's or something-

Mm

The lack of effective policing in the East End meant that most crimes were never solved, and rumors spread faster than evidence could be gathered.

Mary Ann Nichols' body was discovered on the corner of Berwick Street.

Her throat was slit from left to right.

The coroner noted that her stomach contents had been emptied by a large knife, an early hint at the later pattern the Ripper would show.