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Dandy Nichols was born on 21 May 1907 in Fulham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Alf Garnett Saga (1972), The Vikings (1958) and The Deep Blue Sea (1955). She was married to Stephen Baguley Waters. She died on 6 February 1986 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK.- Writer
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Norman Vaughan was born on 10 April 1923 in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire [now in Merseyside], England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for London Affair (1970), Bullseye (1981) and Come Play with Me (1977). He was married to Bernice. He died on 17 May 2002 in Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK.- Mary Ann Walker was born on August 26, 1845 in Dawes Court, Shoe Lane, off Fleet Street (London, England) to blacksmith (former locksmith) Edward Walker and his wife Caroline. She was christened in or some years before 1851. She had a brother. Caroline died in 1852 aged 32 and was buried on 5th December at St Andrew Holborn.
Polly married William Nichols on January 16, 1864. She would have been about 22 years old. The couple had three children: Edward John, born on 4th of July 1866; Percy George, 1868 and Alice Esther, 1870. In 1877 they had their second daughter, Eliza Sarah, and their marital problems began. In 1879 their son Henry Alfred was born. Around 1880/81 William and Polly separated. William retained custody of the children. William paid Polly an allowance of 5/- (25p) a week. After the separation, Polly began a sad litany of moving from workhouse to workhouse (a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment). In 1882, William found out that his wife was living as a prostitute and discontinued support payments to her.
She went to the Lambeth Workhouse and stayed from 21st May to 2nd June 1883. From that day and until the 26th October 1887 she had been living with a man named Thomas Stuart Dew, a blacksmith.
On 12th May 1888 she left Lambeth to take a position as a domestic servant in the home of Samuel and Sarah Cowdry. This was common practice at the time for Workhouses to find domestic employment for female inmates. She worked for two months and then left while stealing clothing worth three pounds, ten shillings.
She was found murdered on August 31st 1888. Her murderer was not identified nor caught, and later was nicknamed as the serial killer "Jack the Ripper". She was believed to be his first victim according to many historians, although some other poor women and prostitutes were murdered in a similar way before. - It is not known the exact day of Annie Eliza Smith's birthday, but she was born in September 1841 in Knightsbridge (West London) to George Smith of Harrow Road, a Private, 2nd Battalion of Lifeguards (at the time of his death he was listed as a servant) and Ruth Chapman of Market Street. She had three younger sisters, Emily Latitia (b.1844), Georgina (b.1856) and Mirium Ruth (b.1858), and a younger brother, Fountain Hamilton (b. 1861).
Annie married her maternal relative John Chapman, a coachman, on May 1, 1869 at All Saints Church in the Knightsbridge district of London. She was 28. Their residence on the marriage certificate is listed as 29 Montpelier Place, Brompton. In 1870 their first daughter Emily Ruth was born. In 1873 their second daughter, Annie Georgina, was born. In 1880 they had a son, John Alfred, who was a cripple and sent to a home or charity school. Sadly, Emily Ruth died of meningitis at the age of twelve. Annie and John separated by mutual consent in 1884 or 1885. John Chapman semi-regularly paid his wife 10 shillings per week by Post Office order until his death on Christmas day in 1886, aged 44.
Sometime during 1886 she was living with a sieve maker named John "Jack" Sivvey (unknown whether this is a nickname or not) at the common lodging house at 30 Dorset Street, Spitalfields. Although they never did marry, she was by then known as Annie Sivvey or Sievey/Siffey). He left her soon after her husband's death, probably when the money stopped coming.
From May or June 1888, Annie was living consistently at Crossingham's Lodging House at 35 Dorset Street, Spitalfields. More recently, Annie had been having a relationship with Edward Stanley, a bricklayer's mate, known as the Pensioner.
On September 8, 1888 she was found murdered at 29 Handbury Street. The police at the time thought that she was murdered by an unidentified murderer, afterwards nicknamed "Jack The Ripper". According to most historians, she would be his second victim, first being Mary Ann Nichols. - Cinematographer
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American-born English inventor and technician, a pioneer of early cinema design, photography, development, and patents. He was born to English parents in Richmond, Virginia, on July 23, 1854. His parents moved with young Birt to North Carolina and started a plantation there. However, the U.S. Civil War erupted and both parents died defending the plantation. Young Acres, orphaned at 10, went to live with his aunt in Virginia. She recognized his artistic and inventive talents and sent him to Paris to study at the Sorbonne Art Studios. He became enthralled with photography and began to study the science of cameras and the potential for moving pictures. Upon his return from France, he set out on a long journey through the American West. He worked as a lumberjack and studied and traded with Native American tribes. Eventually, his love of photography led him to move to England, where he opened a photography and painting studio in Ilfracombe, Devon. He applied himself to the study and development of photographic chemistry. He wrote scholarly articles on photography and chemical development and became rather well-known in the photographic community. He was invited to join the Royal Meteorological and Photographic Societies. In 1891, he was invited to take over the running of Elliott & Sons, the leading British maker of photographic plates and paper. He moved to London with his relatively new family. He was especially fond of nature photography and developed a slide projector which could crudely replicate, by shuffling rapidly through images, the motion of waves, clouds, and wind-blown trees, a precursor using the persistence of vision effect that would make motion pictures possible. In 1894, Acres met Robert W. Paul, who was interested in creating films that could be shown on Thomas A. Edison's new kinetoscope. Together they invented a camera that would make 35 mm films compatible with Edison's machine. Acres used it to create the first film to be shot in England, Clovelly Cottage, Barnet (1895) or "lncident in Clovelly Cottage," filmed at Acres's home. Acres and Paul began making films of various sporting events as well as human interest and comedy pieces. But the two men were incompatible partners and split up angrily in 1895. Each went his own way, and they became competitors in the business of projector manufacture and sales. Acres in January, 1896, presented the first public projection of motion picture film in Britain with screenings at the Lyonsdown Photographic Club and the Royal Photographic Society. He presented his films at a Royal Command Performance at Marlborough House that summer and was invited to photograph the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Cardiff Exhibition. With a prescient concept of a home-movie market, he invented a 17.5 mm camera called the Birtac that used half the normal amount of film and was small enough to be used by non-professional individuals. His original projector, the Kineopticon, or Kinetic Lantern, he continued to develop and improve. He founded a company, The Northern Photographic Works (later Whetstone Photographic Works), in London. He continued to invent and develop products for motion picture photography, but was reluctant to take part in the increasing entertainment market for films. Thus his business began to suffer, since he preferred to promote (and lecture about) scientific and nature-oriented cinema. He was twice bankrupted and by 1900 had abandoned the film business. He died from peritonitis following appendicitis on December 27, 1918, at 64, survived by his wife of 27 years, Annie, and their two children. He is buried in Walthamstow Cemetery in Greater London.- George Cornell died on 9 March 1966 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK.
- Francis Duguid was born on 15 May 1889 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Naval Treaty (1922) and The Prince and the Beggarmaid (1921). He died on 22 September 1922 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK.
- Archie Battersbee was born on 10 March 2010 in England, UK. He died on 6 August 2022 in Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK.
- Sherkot was born in 1906 in Paris, France. He died on 20 November 1948 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK.
- Leon Sherkot was born in 1906 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Dance Band (1935), Merry-Go-Round (1948) and Variety Makers (1948). He died on 20 November 1948 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK.