Author: Richard Jones

There are several things that our clients love about our Jack the Ripper Walking Tour of London’s East End. Firstly, we are not like the Tower Hill Cattle drive tours that cram as many people as possible onto […]

Today John Bennett takes a look at one of the East End’s pubs that is well and truly associated with the Jack the Ripper mystery, the Ten Bells. This is the first of a series of articles whereby […]

7th February 2014 sees the 102nd birthday of one Charles John Huffam Dickens and, to celebrate Richard will be leading a very special Dickens birthday walk entitled Happy Bozday Mr. Dickens. The walk will start from Exit Three […]

First off, I’d just like to wish all those who have taken, those who are planning to take, and those who have no intention of taking, our Jack the Ripper Walk a very merry Christmas and a happy […]

The other day I made my way up to the roof top viewing platform of One New Change in the City of London. If you’ve never paid this a visit I’d highly recommend it. It’s located on Cheapside, […]

In January 1863 London saw the opening of the World’s first Underground Railway. Since then billions of people have travelled on the network, and some of them have found the experience so alluring that they have felt compelled to […]

When the Metropolitan Railway Line opened, in January 1863, the original intention of the line’s engineer, Sir John Fowler, had been to power the trains by compressed air. Unfortunately a major flaw with this was that the compressed air […]

We tend to take the London Underground very much for granted today. Take our nightly Jack the Ripper Tour, for example. Night after night tour participants descend into the depths beneath different parts of London and, generally speaking, […]

At first glance you might think that there is nothing that could be learned from Jack the Ripper. After all, on the surface, this is just a simple case of five murders carried out by an unknown, and […]

John Bennett has co-authored the new book that is about to take the World of ripper studies by storm. The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper, which he wrote in conjunction with Paul Begg, takes the reader on […]