Last Friday we got a two star review on a well known travel site. But, as it transpired, the review wasn’t about our tour but about one of the London walks that depart from Tower Hill Underground Station. […]
Read ArticleAuthor: Richard Jones
Numerous films have been made about the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, and many famous film directors have tackled the subject on celluloid. Alfred Hitchcock based his creepy 1927 movie The Lodger: A Story of A London […]
Read ArticleThe East End of London has seen an awful lot of change since Jack the Ripper’s day. Indeed, in some ways, Jack the Ripper might have been the catalyst that sparked off a lot of the initial change […]
Read ArticleWe’ve been generating a lot of discussion lately on our Jack the Ripper Tours Facebook Page the possible identity of the Whitechapel Murderer. The general responses amongst those who have commented on the mystery of who was responsible […]
Read ArticleWell, the weather outside is frightful but a walk can be delightful if you dress for the cold! We’re currently in the grip of the so-called “beast from the east” as a cold wind has sept in from […]
Read ArticleThere is now a sign up in Mitre Square – where the murder of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered on 30th September 1888 – suggesting that it is to close as a […]
Read ArticleHunting for Jack the Ripper throughout the East End of London can be a, to say the least, frustrating task. There you are, following up a clue or a sighting, thinking you’re getting close to a possible solution […]
Read ArticleCharles Dickens most certainly knew the East End of London well. Indeed, had he not died in June 1870, 18 years before the commencement of the Whitechapel Murders, then there is little doubt that, by now, an author […]
Read ArticleIt is a sad fact of the Jack the Ripper murders that his victims – Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Kelly – often get forgotten in the annual rush to hunt down and […]
Read ArticleRecently I posed a question on our Facebook page which, I have to say, was intended to be somewhat tongue in cheek. That question was – Who would win in a fight between Jack the Ripper and Sweeney […]
Read Article