Welcome to the sinister world of London's Jack the Ripper Tours. Dare you follow your guide into the darker recesses of Whitechapel? Dare you snake your way along the bloodstained trail left by Jack the Ripper on these unique tours that take you through the streets of London as they were 1888.
This is Whitechapel as it was then, a sordid crime-ridden part of London where vice, violence and drunkenness flourished and where the residents fought a daily battle for survival.
Ours is the only one of the Jack the Ripper Tours that takes you immediately into the streets as they were in 1888.
Our first stop is a cobbled alleyway that has changed so little since Martha Tabram, who in 1888 was thought to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper, was found dead on a first floor landing of what was then George Yard Buildings.
Of all the Jack the Ripper Tours this is one of only a few that actually visits George Yard, and is the ONLY one to show you a photograph of George Yard Buildings taken in 1890. How do we have this photograph? Quite simply Richard Jones is the author of the soon to be published book to accompany our Jack the Ripper Tours "Umasking Jack the Ripper" and he found the photograph whilst conducting archive research. This is typical of the depth of detail that is involved with our walks.
We take our research very seriously indeed and ensure that the tours we offer are both entertaining and accurate. Sadly not all London Walks care that much. We have seen several guides stop outside a building in Gunthorpe Street (as George Yard is now known) and point this out as George Yard Buildings where Martha Tabram was murdered in August 1888. The building was infact a home for girls in 1888, whilst the murder site itself was actually at the other end of George Yard. So if you do go on another tour and your guide points up at a buildings that has the date 1886 above it and tells you this is where Jack the Ripper murdered Martha Tabram, please treat it as just one of the many inaccuracies with which Jack the Ripper Tours seem to be plagued!
The thing is that anyone can and does set up Jack the Ripper tours around London, and many who do it, just read a book or learn a script and then present themselves as Jack the Ripper experts. As a paying customer you deserve better. You deserve a guide whose tour is the result of an in depth study of this fascinating suspect. You deserve to be taken around by a guide who has taken the trouble to learn where all the related sites are, so that they can impart accurate and up to date information. You deserve a guide who knows the subject and who can answer any questions you might have politely and accurately. That is why our research into the East End of 1888 is an ongoing affair. Our guides are up to date on all the new theories, information and developments in the Jack the Ripper story, and that is why our Jack the Ripper tours are constantly praised and applauded by our clients.
So if you want to take a Jack the Ripper Walk ensure that you take one of the tours that is led by a genuine authority on the subject. But also be sure that you join one of the Jack the Ripper tours that shows you photographs of the streets of London's East End as it was when terror walked and stalked the streets, and Jack the Ripper lurked int hose dark, dark recesses.
