Today, it being a Sunday, I was – as I am prone to do on Sunday mornings – pondering the nature of fate, when the old adage “lightning never strikes in the same place twice” suddenly struck me. […]
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Well, it’s Saturday morning and the sun is blazing down on London from a clear blue sky. Okay, it’s absolutely freezing but hey ho it is the bleak mid-winter (well almost). So, what better way to get in […]
Read ArticleChristmas is coming and the geese are getting fat. The weather’s getting chilly and you’re going to need your hat! Okay, enough of the festive rhymes. Today our eagerly awaited Dickens Christmas walks have gone live and they […]
Read ArticleWhen I started our Jack the Ripper Walk in 1982 there were just a few companies offering sporadic Jack the Ripper Tours. Indeed, at first I used to offer the ripper tour on Monday nights only. But then, […]
Read ArticleThe police officers who struggled to catch Jack the Ripper have, over the years, come in for an awful lot of stick for their, apparent, inability to bring the murderer to justice. There can be little doubt that […]
Read ArticleWell, here we are, another year almost over, and just a few short weeks away from Christmas. The crisp December nights are closing in (or, to be more precise, have well and truly closed in) and the atmosphere […]
Read ArticleIn the 19th century cocaine and opium and their various derivatives, were widely, and legally, available as painkillers and pick-me-ups in over the counter remedies from pharmacists. Indeed, the number of legally available products that contained cocaine is […]
Read Article‘Tis the season to be jolly, ’tis the season when the West End of London pulls out the stops and prepares to dazzle the millions of shoppers who flock to Oxford Street and Regent Street to admire the […]
Read ArticleOn 9th November 1888 Mary Kelly was murdered in her room in Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street. She is generally believed to have been the last of Jack the Ripper’s victims. However, the Whitechapel Murders continued and several […]
Read ArticleThe Jack the Ripper murders impacted on Victorian society in several ways. As far as some of the wealthier citizens who lived in the west of London were concerned he was the embodiment of all the fears and […]
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