Well, here we are, another year almost over, and just a few short weeks away from Christmas. The crisp December nights are closing in (or, to be more precise, have well and truly closed in) and the atmosphere […]
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London is currently doing swimmingly in the weather stakes! We had a slight respite from the downpours yesterday (Sunday) but this morning we’ve woken up to a positive deluge. So how does the rain impact on our Jack […]
Read ArticleIt 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 […]
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 […]
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