Over the years we’ve made our fair share of bloopers when filming for our various Jack the Ripper documentaries. Not surprising really when you consider the fact that much of the footage that appears on our various programmes […]
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A stones throw away from where our tour begins you will find the Tower of London, a building with a story every bit as sinister and as gruesome as the story of Jack the Ripper. There are many […]
Read ArticleIt has been said that there are only two certainties in life – death and taxes. With regard the latter it is possible to avoid or evade. With regards the former evasion or avoidance are not options. Sooner […]
Read ArticleThe murders of Martha Tabram on 8th August 1888 and of Mary Nichols on 31st August 1888 had most certainly caused a general feeling of nervousness in Spitalfields and Whitechapel. The fact that both women had been slain […]
Read ArticleThis week in 1888 the newspapers were carrying the details of the murder of Martha Tabram whose body had been discovered on the first floor landing of a black of flats in George Yard, off Whitechapel High Street. […]
Read ArticleWell, we’ve chosen the winner of our great Gift Voucher give away. We don’t really go in for high-tech wizardry here at ripper central. Rather, we’re more of the old fashioned sort of wizardry, well to be honest […]
Read ArticleYou might recall that, a week ago last Sunday, we launched our, rather challenging, latest competition and posed the question what have the song London Bridge is Falling Down and your mobile phone got in common. At stake […]
Read ArticleIt’s been a while since we left the East End of London to take a look at other parts of the Capital and so today we’re going to take a few strides over the boundary and into the […]
Read ArticleFor us today, separated from the autumn of 1888 by the passage of over 100 years, it can be difficult to glean an impression of the extent of the sheer terror that the Whitechapel Murderer, or Jack the […]
Read ArticleIn 2010 four of our guides,Paul Begg, Richard Jones, John Bennett and Philip Hutchinson took part in the Channel Five drama/documentary Jack the Ripper:- The Definitive Story. This ground breaking documentary used modern techniques to recreate the streets […]
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