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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Jack the Ripper Walk
The programme Ripper Streethas been playing on UK Television over the last few weeks and it tells the story of the hunt for Jack the Ripper. It airs tonight on BBC America and features Matthew Macfadyen as Detective […]
Read ArticleWhen you think of Jack the Ripper you, inevitably, thing of foggy and gas lit streets. Now, in all honesty, on the nights when the murders took place fog was conspicuous by its absence. For that matter, as […]
Read ArticleToday’s blog takes you on a journey back in time and take a look at Petticoat Lane as it was in 903, 15 years after the Jack the Ripper murders. There’s something quite eerie about this black and […]
Read ArticleWhen I started our Jack the Ripper Walk in 1982 there were just a few companies offering sporadic Jack the Ripper Tours. Indeed, at first I used to offer the ripper tour on Monday nights only. But then, […]
Read ArticleWell, 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 […]
Read Article‘Tis the season to be jolly, ’tis the season when the West End of London pulls out the stops and prepares to dazzle the millions of shoppers who flock to Oxford Street and Regent Street to admire the […]
Read ArticleLondon 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 ArticleWith Christmas fast approaching, now is the time to get gift buying and if you are looking for something Jack the Ripper related, we have it all right here!
Read ArticleThe East End of London has been put well and truly on the map by the Olympics and by other factors such as tech and software companies moving out east and the opening of the Westfield Shopping Centre, […]
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