Author: Richard Jones

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 […]

Mitre Square is currently undergoing a massive transformation which has seen the demolition of the – it has to be said – somewhat bland office buildings that enclosed it on its northern and eastern sides. For over a […]

How many people will you identify today? If you think about it, we spend almost every waking hour identifying people. You might identify The Queen, Prince Charles, The Pope, George Clooney, or some other rock star, actor or […]

One of the most poignant locations on your Jack the Riper tour is when we stand outside the Indian restaurant that stands at the junction of Brick Lane and Thrawl Street. The guide draws the groups attention to […]

If you want to go straight to the quiz,  without reading how the quiz is structured,  then simply scroll down to the foot of this page. Otherwise, please read on. Johnny Depp hunted him in the film From […]

When we give the account of the murder of Mary Nichols on the nightly Jack the Ripper tour, we often discuss how Robert Paul and Charles Cross, the two men who initially discovered the body, having ascertained that […]

On the Charles Dickens walks I often discuss the trauma that befell Dickens when, at the age of twelve, his father, John, found himself deeply in debt and Charles was sent to work at the Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, […]