The Ten Bells: The Pub on the Corner

England, London · Storbritannia · Pub · Skrekk 3/5

The Ten Bells has stood on this corner since at least the middle of the eighteenth century, with a preserved Victorian interior and tiling from the 1880s.

The Ten Bells has stood on this corner since at least the middle of the eighteenth century, with a preserved Victorian interior and tiling from the 1880s. In the 1970s and 1980s the pub was for a time called The Jack the Ripper and had murder memorabilia on the walls, until a campaign forced the brewery to restore the old name. The argument, rightly, was that a killer of women should not be celebrated across a bar.

Two of the Ripper's victims are said to have had connections here. Annie Chapman is said to have been drinking here in the hours before her murder, and Mary Jane Kelly is said to have often sought customers outside the door. Both connections are historically plausible but impossible to prove, and a good deal of modern marketing has been mixed in. The pub also has a reputation for being haunted, with sounds from above and objects falling, often tied to a landlord who by tradition was murdered upstairs in the 1880s, a story mostly to be read on the pub's own wall. Take a moment at the bar all the same. This is one of the few places where 1888 still breathes in the same room as the living.

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Hvor skummel er The Ten Bells: The Pub on the Corner?

The Ten Bells: The Pub on the Corner har en skrekkfaktor på 3/5 ifølge Haunted Places’ verifiserte vurderinger.

Hvor ligger The Ten Bells: The Pub on the Corner?

The Ten Bells: The Pub on the Corner ligger i England, London, Storbritannia.

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