Author: Richard Jones

On the 8th September 1888, the people of the East End were waking to the news that the person responsible for the murders of Martha Tabram and Mary Nichols had struck again. His victim this time was Annie […]

Our previous blog told the gruesome story of the murders of John Levy and Annie Gale, which took place in Turner Street, Whitechapel on the 4th April 1896. William Seaman was subsequently found guilty of the murders and, […]

Today Turner Street is a nondescript thoroughfare that stretches from Whitechapel Road to Commercial Road, its northern section running alongside the London Hospital. Walking along it you reach its junction with Varden Street where a modern textile warehouse […]

Looking back on the Whitechapel Murders today, it is difficult for us to imagine what it must have been like in the streets of the area in the immediate aftermaths of the crimes. Separated from the horrors by […]

Today sees the 128th anniversary of the murder of Mary “Polly” Nichols, which took place in Buck’s Row in the early hours of the 31st August 1888. THE POLLY NICHOLS MURDER QUIZ We’ve also devised a quiz, the […]

On Thursday 2nd October 1890, The Pall Mall Gazette published an article written by one of its reporters who had recently paid a visit to Whitechapel and had taken the time to visit the various sites that, over […]

During the last week of August 1888, the people of London were enjoying what might be described as the calm before the storm. The murder of Martha Tabram, which had taken place earlier that month, had certainly caused […]

One of the points about the various Whitechapel Murders sites is that none of them have survived, at least not in the form they were in 1888. Yes, we can visit the sites in 2016, but we are […]

One of the more poignant things you can do in London is to visit the graves of the various victims of Jack the Ripper. Standing alongside their final resting places – or at least as close to those […]

Today I feel very honoured that Michael L. Hawley, Author of The Ripper’s Haunts –  a book that I heartily recommend for the sheer depth of its research – has agreed to provide us with a distillation of his research […]