Month: July 2015

On the 28th July 1888, no less a person than Dr. Thomas Barnardo, would find himself in a spot of hot water over an alledge assault he was accused of making on the person of  Eliza Whitbread in […]

Now, this one is a real humdinger of a quiz! The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to Beat the Ripper by answering 20 mind-jarring questions on the case in less than 6 minutes. Are you up […]

In a previous article we looked at the mysterious disappearance of local rate collector Mt Jas. Hood and ended by pondering what had happened to him. Well, on 31st August 1888, the same day that it reported the […]

In August 1888 the East End newspapers were reporting the strange case of a local parochial officer who had, apparently, vanished without a trace. On 18th August 1888, The East End Observer carried the headline:- MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF […]

When, in 1896, Alfred Harmsworth – later knighted as Lord Northcliffe – launched his lively new journal The Daily Mail his motto was “Get me a murder a day”! Harmsworth was well aware that murder and scandal sold papers […]

In this article we are just going to take a quick look at the Jack the Ripper saga, detailing some of the people who have, over the years, found themselves connected with the story, be it as victims, […]

There are many surprises in the East End of London. Streets that you can walk along that seem to be dull, boring and totally uneventful thoroughfares can, for example, suddenly give way to a location that has you […]

Over the previous months, we’ve been adding snippets of our documentary of the decision by Arthur Conan Doyle to finish off his famous creation Sherlock Holmes. In fact, we’ve currently reached the part where Doyle had done the […]

One of the most poignant locations that I visit on any of my tours is the Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, located in Postman’s Park, off Aldersgate Street, and which I visit on the Secret London walking tour. […]

One of the great things about conducting Jack the Ripper tours is the number of people you get to meet who have an interest in the case with whom you can discuss various aspects of a mystery that […]