Petticoat Lane | Jack The Ripper Tour

Posted on January 21, 2013July 16, 2014 by Richard Jones

In the course of our walking tour around Jack the Ripper’s London we make our way through several streets that are, quite literally, marinated in London’s past. Even the names some of these wonderful old thoroughfares have a […]

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Tagged Frying Pan Alley, Houndsditch, Jack the Ripper Tour, London Street Names, Middlesex Street, Petticoat Lane, Petticoat Lane Market

Dr Barnardo

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Richard Jones

On of the true heroes of the 19th Century East End was Dr. Thomas Barnardo, a man who, by the time of his death in 1905, had cared for and saved more than 60,000 homeless children who would […]

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Tagged Dr Thomas Barnardo, East End of London, Jack Jarvis, London Hospital, Petticoat Lane, Whitechapel

Petticoat Lane 1903

Posted on December 10, 2012December 9, 2012 by Richard Jones

Today’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 […]

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Tagged City of London, East End of London, Jack the Ripper, Jack the Ripper Tour, Jack the Ripper Walk, Middlesex Street, Petticoat Lane, Petticoat Lane Market