What is it about the East End of London that makes it so special? As someone who has been leading tours around the area now since 1982, I have seen the East End in all its various incarnations […]
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Ten Bells Pub
One of the questions we asked recently on our Facebook Page was what is your favourite location in the East End of London. It’s amazing how fond people are of the East End. Or, then again, perhaps it […]
Read ArticleToday, it being the day after the murder of Mary Kelly on 9th November 1888, I thought I’d return to the scene of the crime, as it were, and look at the locations that featured in the story […]
Read ArticleIt’s Hallowe’en and tonight’s the night when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. The Celts believed that on this night – which in their Calendar was the equivalent of our New Year’s […]
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 ArticleThey say that a video presentation is worth a thousand words, or was that a picture! Either way I recently shadowed John Bennett as he led a group of eager participants around the East End on his Jack […]
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