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The Old Bull and Bush on North End Way, is a legendary Hampstead pub that, in the 19th century, was a favourite Sunday and Bank Holiday resort with Eastenders. It was immortalised in the song Down at the […]

The Ten Bells Pub is a true survivor from the age of Jack the Ripper. Its interior, resplendent with a magnificent tiled wall panel depicting Spitalfields in olden times, has changed very little since the late 19th century, […]

Today I want to bring you a case from the 1850s that shares many similarities with the Netflix dram Baby Reindeer, even down to the fact that the two main protagonists shared a Christian name and an occupation […]

In a previous article I featured the details of the murder of Mr. Shepherd, which took place in December, 1832. At the inquest into his death it was suggested that a man named Samuel Newland may have been […]

In December, 1832, London was shocked by a terrible murder that had taken place in Clerkenwell, just to the north of the City of London. The Northampton Mercury  gave full details of what had occurred in its edition […]

Although murders such as those committed by Jack the Ripper were shocking, and were given plenty of press coverage, there were, nonetheless, plenty of other murders that took place in London at the time. There were stories of […]

As with so many tings, once the railways came, and made travel faster and more commonplace, people started figuring out what sort of crimes this new mode of transport could facilitate. All sorts of crimes and weird encounters […]

Dorset Street, in Spitalfields, was the scene of the murder of Jack the Ripper’s final victim, Mary Kelly, on the 9th of November, 1888. A few years later, it became even more infamous as the worst street in […]

One of the many frustrations when you attempt to investigate unsolved crimes from the distant past is trying to ascertain the actual facts about what happened, and to resist the temptation to speculate. The Jack the Ripper crimes […]

The most paranormally active site connected with the Jack the Ripper crimes is that of 29 Hanbury Street, scene of the murder of Annie Chapman, which took place in the backyard of the house on the 8th of […]