It was 100 years ago today that George Yard – the dark, cobbled and slightly sinister thoroughfare that our tour plunges into within moments of setting out – changed its name to Gunthorpe Street. For those of you […]
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Today we thought we’d take you on a photo journey through the streets of Spitalfields and Whitechapel so that you can see for yourselves what a great and atmospheric area it is. We begin our journey through Jack […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 ArticleUpdate.. well a week’s gone by since the quiz questions were set. How did you do? Below are the answers in red. Keep coming back for Jack the Ripper updates and for future quizzes. Since it is a […]
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