Did Jack the Ripper live in Highbury?
Walter Sickert, the famous Victorian artist, did, at 1 Highbury Place (he also established a painting school in Highbury). Some believe Sickert was the Ripper. Good timing Highbury has two famous clocks: the one in the famous Clock End of the old stadium; and Highbury Clock, which stands just north of Highbury Fields and was erected to celebrate Queen Victoria’s sixtieth jubilee. The shortest single yellow line in the UK is in Highbury… It is eighteen inches long, and it’s in Highbury Crescent. The Council maintains it is there “to help drivers”. (In case you need to know, the shortest double yellow is in Norwich.
