The infamous Whitechapel Murderer known as Jack the Ripper continues to haunt, horrify, and hypnotise us over 135 years after the murders took place. Based on the latest academic consensus, meticulous research, and focusing on the facts as presented through the surviving official records of the Ripper inquests, this intimate tour, which is limited to just your booking, retraces the steps of Jack the Ripper through Whitechapel, Smithfield, and the City of London.
As you follow in the footsteps of the infamous Jack the Ripper, this tour takes you in order through the five canonical murders, plus one of the suspected murders which, according to the latest forensic and policing techniques, looks more and more likely to be a murder committed by Jack the Ripper.
Starting at Whitechapel Station and led by a passionate, highly knowledgeable guide, this tour is the best and most intimate way to discover the horrors, history, and herstory of the myth that Jack the Ripper has become.
Your first stop will be a short walk from Whitechapel Station, where the Ripper's first canonical murder occurred. Here, your guide will tell you all about the first official victim, Polly Nichols. What happened to this poor woman? How was she discovered? And why is she considered the first canonical victim? Your questions will all be answered by your guide.
Your second stop is outside the former Working Lads Institute, where inquests into the Ripper murders were held. Whilst here, you will discover how inquests during the Victorian period were held, how each of the inquests into the Ripper murders progressed, who was called as witnesses, and what there outcomes where.
29 Hanbury Street, where the second victim Annie Chapman, was found. Annie's death started public and media panic, which placed increasing pressure on the local police to find the person that the London newspapers were calling 'The Whitechapel Murderer'! How did this panic in the press and with the public fuel the myth that was to become Jack the Ripper? Find out on this tour!
You will make your own way to the meeting points