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Before the gastropub refurb and the rooftop herb garden, this was the Princess Alice. John Pizer, the man the local women called "Leather Apron", used to threaten sex workers with a knife in here. When the Ripper panic broke in September 1888 he became the first prime suspect, though he was cleared at Annie Chapman's inquest. Three years later, Frances Coles — the last official victim of the Whitechapel Murders — was seen leaving this pub alive for the last time. The Culpeper is now five floors of exposed brick and small plates, renamed in 2014 after the 17th-century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper. The original building went up in 1883, commercial Gothic in red brick with terracotta detailing — you can still see it in the facade, even after the Blitz took two storeys off the top.