The West and East India Docks would be built in 1802 for unloading cargo from both companies: spices from India (East India Company); and the occasional enslaved person, as well as goods like rum, sugar, and cotton from the British West Indies (Cayman, Anguilla, Turks and Caicos, Montserrat, British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Barbados, etc.) (Encyclopedia Britannica). These were the two companies that expanded the British Empire's reach.

St. Anne's Church Limehouse is an Anglican Church, formed from part of the parish of St. Dunstan's, located in Stepney (an historical part of Poplar), and was consecrated in 1730. The church may be named for Queen Anne, who raised money for it by taxing coal that traveled through the River Thames (Cryer 1). (Saint Anne is also the patron saint of carpenters, seamstresses, lacemakers, miners, etc.

Emily Dimmock was found dead in a locked bedroom at her home at Agar Grove (then 29 St Paul’s Road) Camden, which she shared with her partner, railwayman Bertram Shaw. She had apparently returned home from The Eagle public house, Royal College Street with an individual who had approached her for sex, fallen asleep after the act, and had then been killed before morning. Nothing much had been taken from the flat, and no motive was clear to the detectives.