Author: Richard Jones

The New Scotland Yard Crime Museum – formerly, and famously, known as the “Black Museum”  – has previously only been open to police officers and selected guests. But, from October this year, it’s fascinating, though chilling, collection of […]

On 22nd September 1888, Punch magazine published a cartoon that depicted a blindfolded police officer surrounded by a group of ne’er-do-well villains. Entitled “Blind-Man’s Buff” the cartoon has been reproduced many times since in various tomes on the Jack […]

It’s often said that you can tell an awful lot about a person by simply looking into their eyes, a fact that has inspired our latest quiz in which you can test your ability to spot the ripper […]

Mary “Polly” Nichols, who is considered by many to have been the first of Jack the Ripper’s victim, was murdered in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel on 31st August 1888. The area has changed a great deal since that long […]

One of the most surprising East End streets, located just a short distance form where our Jack the Ripper Tour begins, is Mile End Place, an easily missed turning off Mile End Road. Indeed, the turning off Mile […]

Today, we continue with our mission to rebuild, on line at least, the various sites connected with the Jack the Ripper murders in the East End of London. Today. we are going to set you the challenge of […]

In the early hours of 30th September 1888, Leon Goldstein, having enjoyed a coffee in a coffee shop in Spectacle Alley, headed home to 22 Christian Street. He was carrying a black bag that was, so he later […]

One of the major problem that beset the Victorian detectives who were charged with the unenviable task of hunting down Jack the Ripper was the geographic layout of the district in which the Whitechapel Murders were occurring. As […]

There are many reasons to remember Sir Edward Henry (1850-1931) and his tenure as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, which lasted from 1903 to 1918. It was, for example during his Commission, that police dogs were introduced. He also introduced […]

The number of suspects whose names have, over the years, been put forwards as likely contenders for the mantle of Jack the Ripper now runs into the hundreds. To start the Jack the Ripper suspects quiz that little […]