The 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 […]
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We’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 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 ArticleIn 1888 the East End of London was a veritable melting pot of many different nationalities. It was very much the immigrant district of London, due largely to its proximity to the London Docks. Newly arrived immigrants would […]
Read ArticleSince we will never be 100% certain who Jack the Ripper was it follows that we will never know for sure the exact number of victims that he had. Although it is generally said that he had five […]
Read ArticleToday is the anniversary of the murder of Jack the Ripper’s first victim Mary Anne Nichols. Her body was found at 3.40am in what was then Buck’s Row in Whitechapel, but which is now Durward Street. This was […]
Read ArticleAn oft raised question by those who join us on our tour of the murder sites is “wouldn’t he have been covered in blood when he fled through the streets of the East End?” The answer to the […]
Read ArticleWhen I say Jack the Ripper’s London then and now I am talking about when I started the Jack the Ripper Tours in 1982 and the present day 2012. Next month, June 2012, will be the 30th anniversary […]
Read ArticleYou’d be forgiven for thinking that nothing of Jack the Ripper’s London has survived. fter all the march of time, the London Blitz of the Second World War, and property devlopers have all played a hand in chnging […]
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