Month: October 2015

Today, millions of us, the World over, will enjoy a “Happy Halloween” and will dress up in all manner of costumes before heading out to trick or treat our way around our neighbourhoods or, in some cases, further […]

Today in business we’re told that it’s all about brand awareness. Get your brand name out there, those gurus from the business blogs and marketing seminars tell us, and the customers will beat a path to your door. […]

We’ve mentioned several times in our reporting on the Whitechapel Murders that the women of the East End used to arm themselves lest they be approached and attacked by Jack the Ripper in the autumn of 1888. We’ve […]

By late October 1888, the name “Jack the Ripper” had, most certainly, entered the national, if not the international, consciousness and was adding an element of pantomime to the tragedy of the Whitechapel Murders. There are reports that […]

Of all of Jack the Ripper’s victims, the one that took the longest to identify positively was Elizabeth Stride, the third victim, whose murder took place in Dutfield’s Yard, off Berner Street, on 30th September 1888. From very […]

Elizabeth Stride, murdered on 30th September 1888, was the third of Jack the Ripper’s victims. Our latest quiz concerns the people and the locations associated with her murder. There are 10 questions in total, some of them are […]

Over the last week, our roving reporter, Philip Hutchinson, has been taking to the streets of the East End and, armed with nothing more sinister than his trusty smartphone, he has been capturing images of the streets and […]

One of the facts concerning the Whitechapel Murders that often gets quite a reaction on our nightly Jack the Ripper tour around the streets of the East End of London, is the revelation that some of the officers […]

On Monday 15th October 1888, The Star, newspaper carried a report concerning a hearing at the Dalston Magistrates Court at which a man sought damages from a newspaper for mistakenly reporting that he had been found dead! REPORTS OF […]

Over the last few weeks, our guide, Lindsay Siviter, has been busily snapping away to catch some really great images of the buildings she passes as she leads her Jack the Ripper tours around the streets of the […]