In the early hours of the 31st August 1888 a lady by the name of Mary Nichols was found murdered in a dismal East End thoroughfare called Bucks Row.
Our Jack the Ripper London walks take you through the London that he terrorised in the autumn of 1888 and tell the story of the murders in chronological order.
We don’t actually visit Buck’s Row for several reasons. First and foremost amongst those reasons is that it doesn’t exist anymore! Indeed the residents who lived there were a little ashamed of the sudden notoriety the murder of Mary Nichols in their street had given them that they petitioned the council and got the name changed to Durward Street, which is what Buck’s Row is called today.
The actual murder site no longer exists and so it really isn’t worth out London walks making the long trek down to it.
But what we do do on our Jack the Ripper London walking tour, is take you to Thrawl Street, which is where Mary Nichols was ldging at the time of her murder.
On the corner of Thrawl Street is a building that has actually survived from 1888. It is a building that Mary Nichols visited shortly before she was murdered on August 31st 1888.
So why not book up for our special anniversary walk on August 31st 2009 and see for yourself the streets and places associated with the greatest murder mystery of all time.
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