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== 29, Hanbury Street, Spitalfields ==

Annie "Dark Annie" Chapman was brutally murdered in the back yard of 29, Hanbury Street on 8th September 1888.

29, Hanbury Street was a large three-storey house.

== The residents of 29, Hanbury Street ==

=== Mrs Amelia Richardson ===

Mrs Amelia Richardson, a widow, rented part of it and sublet some of the rooms. She slept with her fourteen-year-old grandson in the first floor front room and used two other rooms. Mrs Richardson also had access to the cellar and the ground floor back room where she did her cooking and held weekly prayer meetings.

=== Mrs Harriet Hardiman ===

The front room on the ground floor was a cats’ meat shop. The proprietress, Mrs Harriet Hardiman, slept in the shop with her sixteen-year-old son.

=== Mr Waker ===

Mr Waker was a maker of tennis boots. Mr Waker and his adult son occupied the first floor back.

=== Mr Thompson ===

Mr Thompson, a carman, rented the second floor front with his wife and their adopted daughter. 

=== Unknown ===

Two unmarried sisters who worked in a cigar factory lived in the back room of the second floor.

=== John Davis ===

The front room in the attic housed John Davis, a carman, together with his wife and three sons.

=== Mrs Sarah Cox ===

Mrs Sarah Cox occupied the back room of the attic.

== Trade users of 29, Hanbury Street ==

John Richardson, son of Amelia Richardson, and Francis Tyler, her hired hand, both assisted her in her packing case business and used the cellar workshops.