Richard’s book Haunted Britain is coming on great guns now. Some truly exciting venues have been no been written up and added. In the past week Richard toured Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire collecting ghost stories from places as diverse as a roadside marker where a long ago felon was shot dead and is now buried, to the airfield from which the ill-fated R101 took off on its maiden voyage. The hangars where it was constructed are still there and are now almost 100 years old. One of them was recently leased by Warner Bros and such is its vastness that for the Batman Films Batman Begins and Dark Knight they actually built Gotham City inside it!
There is a connection between the R101 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which is both intriguing and slightly spooky. Talking of Conan Doyle, the last stages of our Sherlock Holmes documentary are now in progress. We’ve interviewed some of the leading experts in Studies in Sherlock and have filmed in both London and Edinburgh and, to be honest, it’s looking really good, though we say so ourselves.
Our London Walking tours are still going strong and we’re pleased to report that all those who missed are Jack the Ripper Walk or our Haunted London walks due to the recent snows have now been switched to alternate dates and have had the opportunity to take the tour. So no-one lost out, in fact everybody gained. Not only did they get to benefit from our sensible policy of limiting the numbers on our Jack the Ripper Tours, but when the snow meant they couldn’t join us they weren’t out of pocket because the moment they called to say they couldn’t make it we happily moved them to another night.
So why not give our Jack the Ripper tour ago and see for yourself why time and again we are referred to as the best of the London walks?
