On our jack the Ripper Walks we don’t actually go to Durward Street, which in 1888 was known as Buck’s Row, and was the place where the body of Mary Nichols, the first of Jack the Ripper’s victims, […]
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As part of the current upgarde taking place on the Underground the tube lines that run in to Aldgate Underground Station are sometimes suspended over the weekend. This coming weekend the Hammersmith and City Line will be suspended […]
Read ArticleOne of the more intriguing Police Officers whose name crops up time and gains in investigation of the Jack the Ripper Murders was Sergeant William Thicke (also spelled Thick in some newspaper accounts). It was Thicke who, in […]
Read ArticleOur walking tour of the Jack the Ripper Murder sites starts outside Aldgate East Underground Station and has done know since 1992. Like other London walks we used to start at Tower Hill Underground Station (indeed ours was […]
Read ArticleOne of the strangest things I have come across in all my years of conducting Jack the Ripper walks is the number of people throughout the world who think that Jack the Ripper never actually existed. Now I […]
Read ArticleHere in the East End of London we’re currently enduring the wettest drought I can remember! It doesn’t seem a month ago that we were basking in tropical temperatures, the tube was sweltering hot and London looked like […]
Read ArticleIt seems unbelievable but this June will see the 30th anniversary since I started my Jack the Ripper tour in 1982. Where on earth has the time gone? Mind you, I suppose, in the scheme of things, 30 […]
Read ArticleOne of the questions I am constantly asked when people learn that I have written books on Jack the Ripper is “who do you think it was then?” Indeed, I wait with baited breath for the question to […]
Read ArticleWhitechapel High Street in 1888 The Jack the Ripper Murders took place, mostly, in the vicinity of Whitechapel High Street so this thoroughfare is an extremely important location in the course of any exploration of the area. Inevitably […]
Read ArticleI came across a very intriguing article about the Jack the Ripper Murders in a newspaper article from November 1888. By this time, if we accept that Mary Kelly was the last victim of Jack the Ripper, the […]
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