This post is mainly to tidy up the link to the raw footage I took when I went to London to explore in the footsteps of Van Gogh. This photograph shows one of the Whitechapel houses of the Victorian era. Back then, there might well have been a family of anything up to a dozen or more living in EACH room.
Here's the footage link: www.youtube.com/user/Vampyrrhic If you copy and paste to your browser bar it will take you there.
The area you'll see is Whitechapel, a buzzing cosmopolitian community. This was also the place that Jack the Ripper stalked in the 1880s.
In recent years the places Van Gogh stayed in London have become the focus of something of a treasure hunt. Recently a hymn copied by Van Gogh onto a scrap of paper was auctioned on e-bay.
The writer Ken Wilkie discovered an original drawing by Van Gogh. This was of the house at 87 Hackford Road, where he briefly lodged, and fell in love with the landlady's daughter. This was another incident of unrequited love that caused Van Gogh much heartache.
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