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Sherlock Holmes Walks In London

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

THE MAN WHO MURDERED SHERLOCK HOLMES
An Exclusive Preview From our new film that you will soon be able to buy on our London Walking Tours.

Well the winter has well and truly gone, and the sun is shining. Mark Ubsdell and Richard Jones took a break from conducting our various London walks and  have been working on the new Sherlock Holmes documentary throughout the winter and we’re pleased to announce that the trailer for it is now live. Much time was spent walking the streets of London and Edinburgh throughout what just happened to be the coldest winter for thirty years. But, thanks largely to Marks hard work and dedication, our next drama documentary “The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes” is almost ready and you will soon be able see it on our various Sherlock Holmes London walks.

The drama-documentary really is a stylish piece that features interviews with some of the world’s leading Sherlockian academics. There are some fantastic dramatic reconstructions, a specially composed soundtrack and in between Richard introduces you to the streets of London and Edinburgh and the various locations that featured in the life of Conan Doyle and the world of Sherlock Holmes.

So take a look at the preview trailer. We hope you enjoy it.

Jack the Ripper - London walks and tours

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Our Jack the Ripper London walks take you through the very streets where the infamous murders occurred in the autumn of 1888.

The alleyways we explore really are amongst some of the most atmospheric in London and our set of Victorian Photographs, which show the streets through which you stroll on our London walk, truly help give you a sense of what the area was like at the time of the murders.

In addition our Jack the Ripper Tour is led by experts who have been researching the case for many years and who are up to date with every twist and turn of what is, without doubt, the world’s most famous murder mystery.

Our London walking tour guides include Richard Jones and Mark Ubsdell who together produced what has been called one of the best Jack the Ripper documentaries of recent years Unmasking Jack the Ripper.

This 75 minute dvd was recently chosen by the Museum in Docklands as the one they wanted to sell at their shop during their 2008 Jack the Ripper exhibition.

It features expert opinions by way of talking head interviews given by such renowned Jack the Ripper historians and Tour guides as Paul Begg, Lindsay Siviter and Jenny Philips.

It also contains some truly atmospheric dramatic recreations that were filmed on location in the streets of Whitechapel, as well as in the London Dungeon’s Jack the Ripper exhibition, the Clink Prison Museum and The, now closed, House of Detention in Clerkenwell.

The dvd costs just £12.99 and can be ordered from our online shop.

In the meantime here is a little taster of what the film looks like.

A London walk for 50p.

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

We’ve well and truly moved with the times and are really excited about our new and innovative London walks service.

Imagine having your own personal guide who can lead you all over London showing you the sites that interest you and all for just 50p. How’s that for an inexpensive tour of London?

How can this be?

Well, Roger Grant, Mark Ubsdell and Richard Jones have teamed up to take London Walking Tours to their next level.

Being true London tour innovators, talented film makers and with fingers on the pulse of modern tourism they have come up with The Electric Tourist, a new website that enables people to actually download London walks on subjects as diverse as Beatles London, Dickens London, Haunted London and Jack the Ripper London walks.

Within moments you can have a tour guide pop up on your mobile phone screen and have them tell you all about the location you are standing at.

Take Dickens London walks for example. Picture the scene. You’re standing in the very alley where Charles Dickens sited Scroodge’s Counting House in a Christmas Carol.

It’s atmospheric, it’s cobwebbed by time and you are really soaking in the atmosphere. But, now you can quickly download a tour guide onto your mobile phone who will tell you what you’re looking at.

Furthermore, you can also watch a sequence of dramatic reconstructions that spirit you back to how that very spot looked in Charles Dickens day.

Suddenly you are watching Victorian Londoners going about their daily business in the fog bathed streets of the City. You see Charles Dickens standing at the location pondering the creation of Scrooge.

You can listen to the very words Dickens wrote complete with background noises. How absolutely cool would that be?

And now its possible. The most innovative group of names on the London walks scene have put their creative skills together and have made this possible.

Walks in Jack the Ripper’s London

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Unmasking Jack the Ripper - The Ultimate True Crime DVD.

One of the reasons that people join our Jack the Ripper London walks is because they have previously seen our drama-documentary Unmasking Jack the Ripper.

This 75 minute programme is written and presented by top Jack the Ripper Tour guide Richard Jones.  It was produced by acclaimed film maker mark Ubsdell and features interviews with several of our London walks guides along with in depth analysis of the crimes by leading Ripper historian and author Paul Begg.

It was filmed on the streets of the East End of London through which our Jack the Ripper London walks go. Additional footage was shot at the London Dungeon and in Clerkenwells chilling House of detention.

Since its release in 2006 Unmasking Jack the Ripper has won universal acclaim in the Jack the Ripper community and has been hailed by many as the best documentary on the subject of recent years.

Having watched the dvd many people then want to explore the streets where the Jack the Ripper murders took place and so they book themselves onto our Jack the Ripper London walk and join the guides whose presentation skills they have been able to judge in advance on the dvd.

You can order your copy of the dvd by clicking on the Shop button on the navigation bar at the top of this page. After that simply click on the dvd’s tag and it will take you through to our dedicated Jack the Ripper London walks site, where you can watch a trailer for the accalimed dvd, read reviews of it and, if you wish to, purchase your very own copy.

You can also book your places on our acclaimed Jack the Ripper London walks that take place everynight of the week at 7pm and which depart from exit four of Aldgate East Underground Station.

One of The best London walks

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The London walks field is a very competitive market and no part of that market is as overcrowded as the Jack the Ripper Tours. Indeed, many companies now offer Jack the Ripper tours of London’s east End, but we are one of the oldest and most established of the companies, and we were the first of all the London walks companies to offer the tour 7 chilling nights a week.

We offer the best Jack the Ripper walk in London.

We have long made a point of striving to offer you the best Jack the Ripper walks in London. Indeed, many people who come to us having taken the tour with other companies comment on how much better they found the experience with us.

For a start we are the only one of the London walks to operate a booking system.  We do this because we are the ONLY Jack the Ripper walking tour that actually limits the numbers on our tours.

But in addition we pride ourselves on the quality of our tours and it is this dedication to being the best in our field that truly sets us apart from the competition.

Three of our guides have published books on Jack the Ripper, five of our guides have appeared on every documentary on Jack the Ripper on channels as diverse as the UK’s Channel Five and Sky, to the Discovery and History Channels.

Richard Jones and Mark Ubsdell have even written and co-produced an acclaimed drama- documentary entitled Unmasking Jack the Ripper, which has been hailed by many Ripper historians the world over as the best recent programme on the case. Indeed one recent recipient of the DVD emailed us to say:-

I have received my EXCELLENT NTSC JTR Video and am Very Happy with it. Mr. Richard Jones and Company have done a great job as always with terrific audio and visual Quality!

As an amateur JTR Sleuth I lean very strongly towards Nathan Kaminsky (so far!) as being Jack the Ripper and this video made that case very succinctly.

Thanks to You and Your Group for the excellent material.

We also take a lot of school groups on our  Jack the Ripper London walks. We did one, for example on June 3rd 2009 and the teacher of that group was in a position to make a fair comparison between our tour and the tour offered by another company. Here’s what she emailed:-

We have completed this walk on a number of occasions in the past with a different company and this was much better than any of them.

This walk exceeded all our expectations after the previous visits when we have been left disappointed. The relevance to the coursework was excellent and the talk was very informative and interesting.

The students were all very motivated and enthusiastic on our journey home and we are looking forward to using their new found knowledge in our Jack the Ripper work.

So when considering which of the London walks companies to book your tour with, why not choose the one that offers more experts than any other and which those who know something about the subject acknowledge as being the best?