The East End is a fascinating part of London and there are many and varied things you can do to explore its streets and buildings and which can help you really get to know the area. In Whitechapel, […]
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Catherine Eddowes
One of the points we keep making on the tour is that, when it comes to the case of Jack the Ripper, absolutely nothing is certain. This is especially true when it comes to the number of victims […]
Read ArticleOne of the great mysteries, at least to us today, concerning the Jack the Ripper murders is exactly how was it that the killer, whoever he may have been, was able to commit his murders and then melt […]
Read ArticleThere is now a sign up in Mitre Square – where the murder of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered on 30th September 1888 – suggesting that it is to close as a […]
Read ArticleIt is a sad fact of the Jack the Ripper murders that his victims – Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Kelly – often get forgotten in the annual rush to hunt down and […]
Read ArticleAlthough our walking tour of Jack the Ripper’s London follows a chronological route and dives straight into the atmospheric, and rather sinister, thoroughfares where the ambience of the 1880’s still holds sway, there are other parts of the […]
Read ArticleOne of the things that astonishes people who venture into the districts of Whitechapel and Spitalfields to walk the streets of Jack the Ripper’s London is just how small and localised the area is in which he was […]
Read ArticleStrangely, over the years, we have had more people faint on our Jack the Ripper Walk than on any other tour we offer. Obviously the ripper subject is a very gruesome one, and we do pass around the […]
Read ArticleIt’s Hallowe’en and tonight’s the night when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. The Celts believed that on this night – which in their Calendar was the equivalent of our New Year’s […]
Read ArticleGeorge Lusk On 16th October 1888 Mr George Lusk, the head of the Mile End Vigilance Committee received a package in the evening mail. When he opened it a foul stench assailed his nostrils. The package contained a […]
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