Greater London Trip Overview
The guide an expert Ripperologist conducting these tours for 28 years dresses in period costume. On Sundays only, she is accompained by a costumed Jack the Ripper, a bit of a devil who bring some humour to an otherwise rather grim subject!
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Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Starts: Greater London, United Kingdom
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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The guide an expert Ripperologist conducting these tours for 28 years dresses in period costume. On Sundays only, she is accompained by a costumed Jack the Ripper, a bit of a devil who bring some humour to an otherwise rather grim subject!
Itinerary
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Stop At: St Botolph’s Aldgate, Aldgate High Street, London EC3N 1AB England
the introduction takes place outside St Botolph’s Church known as the Prostitutes Church because girls used to solicit on the island where it stood.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: St Botolph’s Aldgate, Aldgate High Street, London EC3N 1AB England
Moving round to the square beside the church. You then have a description of what life was like in the poverty stricken overcrowded of Whitechapel in 1888. The squalor, crime and degradation of the people living on the breadline.
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: Mitre St, London EC3A 5BU, UK
Mitre Street just inside the City boundary is the stop about Elizabeth Stride (Long Liz) the 1st victim killed by Jack on the night of the double event
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Mitre St, London EC3A 5BU, UK
To the right of Mitre St lies Mitre Sq just inside the City of London boundary. it is here that Jack killed his 2nd victim on the ‘Double Event’ Catherine Eddowes – two murders in less than an hour. Jack was getting greedy!
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: 44 Goulston St, London E1 7QD, UK
We proceed to the doorway where the only clue was found on the same route that the police took that night hot on the trail of Jack the Ripper
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Gunthorpe Street, Gunthorpe St, London E1, UK
We view Gunthorpe St from Wentworth St looking towards the spot where Martha Tabram was found murdered on 7th Aug 1888 in George Yard Buildings she is now thought to be the most likely 1st victim of Jack the Ripper
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Thrawl Street, Thrawl St, London E1, UK
We Continue to Brick Lane and stop opposite the Frying Pan Pub on corner of Thrawl St where Mary Ann Nichols had her last drink before staggering down Whitechapel Rd to be murdered by Jack in Bucks Row behind Whitechapel Station
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Hanbury Street, Hanbury St, London E1, UK
We continue up Brick Lane to turn left into Hanbury Street where Annie Chapman was murdered in the back yard of 29 Hanbury St
Duration: 12 minutes
Stop At: Wilkes Street, Wilkes St, Hanbury St, London E1 6QR, UK
We turn into Wilkes St, a street untouched by time sine the 1800’s and make our way to Puma Court where you will hear about the Dear Boss letter
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: The Ten Bells, 84 Commercial St, London E1 6LY, UK
We stop opposite the Ten Bells Mary Kelly’s favourite pub and also view Christchurch Graveyard known as Itchy Park, where the homeless would sleep in the daytime
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Old Spitalfields Market, 16 Horner Square, London E1 6EW England
Opposite the market is the London Fruit & Wool Exchange we stop in the entrance for the letter sent to George Lusk head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Group
Duration: 8 minutes
Stop At: London Fruit Exchange, Brushfield St, London E1, UK
In the square behind the London fruit & Wool Exchange we end our tour with the murder of Mary Kelly, Jack’s last victim killed on 9th Nov 1888. from here it is a 5 min walk to Liverpool St Station where there is a choice of tube train lines
Duration: 15 minutes
