Author: Richard Jones

One of the locations we pass on our Jack the Ripper Tour is Middlesex Street, which is better known the World over as Petticoat Lane. A constant observation that we get from participants on our walk is how […]

The 7th August sees the 126th anniversary of what may well have been the first of the Jack the Ripper Murders. The murder itself took place on a first floor landing of George Yard Buildings, located in George […]

If there is one mystery that has been rife with conspiracy theories its the Jack the Ripper case. Almost from the moment some unknown miscreant began his series of murders on the streets of the East End of […]

Strangely, a question we get asked from time to time is “What exactly is a Jack the Ripper Tour?” Some people think that we are a bit like one of those theme park jump out and scare you […]

THE LETTER THAT CREATED ‘THE RIPPER’ “Dear Boss – I keep on hearing the police have caught me but they won’t fix me just yet…” These are the opening lines of what has probably become one of the […]

One of the most intriguing things about our Jack the Ripper tour is the fact that we start our tour at the epicentre of the area where the Whitechapel Murders occurred. This has two benefits. First off, it […]

Our guide, Lindsay Siviter, also freelances as a volunteer at the Metropolitan Police Crime Museum at  New Scotland Yard.   Here she tells us a little bit about the future of the museum and details some of the […]

Quite often, participants on our Jack the Ripper tours ask about those other legendary East End criminals, the Kray Twins, usually wanting to know where the Blind Beggar pub is, or even if it still exists. One of […]

Although our tour focusses very much on the Jack the Ripper crimes, we do cross the paths of several other East End villains as we make our way around the walk’s route. Today our guide John Bennett takes […]

It’s 10 years since we introduced the booking system that made it possible for us to control the numbers on our Jack the Ripper Tour and everybody – clients, local residents and guides – agrees that we made […]