Today 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 […]
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In 1890 a tobacconist in Philadelphia sent a letter to the great detective Sherlock Holmes asking if he could send him a copy of his monograph on tobacco ash. Whether or not the request was tongue, in cheek […]
Read ArticleOver the years we’ve made our fair share of bloopers when filming for our various Jack the Ripper documentaries. Not surprising really when you consider the fact that much of the footage that appears on our various programmes […]
Read ArticleA stones throw away from where our tour begins you will find the Tower of London, a building with a story every bit as sinister and as gruesome as the story of Jack the Ripper. There are many […]
Read ArticleThe murders of Martha Tabram on 8th August 1888 and of Mary Nichols on 31st August 1888 had most certainly caused a general feeling of nervousness in Spitalfields and Whitechapel. The fact that both women had been slain […]
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 ArticleIt’s a sobering thought to look back at the poverty of the East End of London and consider the effect that it had on the children of the area. A huge percentage of those born in the district […]
Read ArticleAs you read through the commentaries left behind by social reformers and others who had cause to venture into the East End of London in the years and months leading up to the Jack the Ripper Murders, you […]
Read ArticleToday Leyton Station is very busy indeed. It’s one of the Central Line Stops that people alight from to get in to the Olympic Park. As the thousands of visitors leave the tube trains they might catch a […]
Read ArticleWell I’ve now passed a milestone in terms of my guiding career and Jack the Ripper. In June I reached my 30 years of leading people on tours around the East End of London. In those days it […]
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