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London Ghost Walks - We’re the Wannados Not The Wannabes

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

With Halloween rapidly approaching it’s nice to see the usual sinister comments about knock-offs, wannabees and amateurs being hurled around by some of the  London Walking Tour Guides.

We’ve never gone in for that sort of questionable behaviour. We don’t do personal insults. We don’t do rants. We prefer to act like grown-ups. We just do great tours that people love. After all if you have to market your tours by hurling unfounded insults at your competitors it says more about the quality of your tours than about your competitors.  Our clients have come to expect a certain level of service from us and our mission is not insult but to entertain. And boy have we got some great things going on at the Original London Ghost Walk.

Richard’s latest book, Haunted Britain has now hit the shops and has been extremely well received. And, though we say so ourselves, it really does look great. The forward was written by Tom Baker, who has kindly posted it on the newsletter page of his website.

This is Richard’s sixteenth book on the paranormal and no other London Walking Tour Guide can offer you the same level of expertise. That’s why Richard’s acclaimed Halloween Ghost Walk has been sold out since mid September. It’s a fun-filled, chilling night of pure (ish) entertainment that unfolds against the backcloth of one of the most haunted City’s in the world.

Richard’s new documentary, The man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes, has won the approval of the world’s most notable Sherlock Holmes Societies, whilst Richard and several of the London Discovery Walks Jack the Ripper guides have been featured in the exciting new Jack the Ripper documentary that will be airing in December this year.

Richard has also achieved several entries in the the latest edition of that bible of Ripper studies, The Complete Jack the Ripper A To Z, one of which hails him as “one of London’s leading Walking Tour guides” .. how’s that for international recognition?

So, as Richard approached his 30th year of offering quality guided walks in London you can see why it is that he is most certainly the guide you wanna be with.

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A London Ghost Walk Anyone?

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Ok, so the nights are bright and the sun is shining. But what better weather can there be to enjoy a London Ghost Walk than a summer’s night!

True, you might fancy the cold wet winter nights when the City is at its spookiest. But the summer nights have a great deal going for them as far as ghost walks in London go.

For a start, you can really appreciate the old buildings that our ghost walks cover. And we really do see some great parts of historic London on our Walks.

To begin with there is the oldest parish church in London, St Bartholomew the Great, which recently featured in the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie by the way.

The there’s the old Roman ruins that really look great on a summer’s night .

The old alleys and courtyards that we explore are a true joy in the summer because you can really look at them and appreciate them.

The other point is that a ghost walk is about the storytelling. And with Richard Jones, the man who is internationally recognised as London’s best ghost walk guide, as your host you will find yourself in the company of a masterful storyteller. His skills as a narrator will keep you looking over your shoulder be it a dark winter’s night or a light summer’s evening.

So check out our Friday night Ghost Walk. and our Saturday Haunted London Walk.

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It’s Haunted Britain Again - Harry Potter London

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Tomorrow Richard takes a brief break from his haunted London walks and sets of to snap photographs for his new upcoming book Haunted Britain.

With the text now in the final copy editing stage and the Forward, which was written by Tom Baker (who called it “the book I’ve been waiting for all mu life”) the hard part is no over and it just remains to get some extra photos.

We had a lovely comment about our free Harry Potter Tour yesterday. Two ladies from Texas emailed to say how much they had enjoyed following the route and that it had introduced them to parts of London they were really pleased to have discovered.

Our free London walks will start rolling out this month and we’ve got some great ones for you.

In the mean time, if you would like a copy of the Harry Potter London walk, then please just send an email to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com and the pdf will then come flying back to you.

You then just print it off and away you go.

Whilst he is away Richard will also be resuming his blog on Haunted Britain which you can follow at the Haunted Britain Blog.

Hopefully there will  be some great photos to go up so keep watching this spot and also check back later this month when the next of our free London walks will go live.

On another note Mark Ubsdell is currently doing the final edit on the Sherlock Holmes documentary he and Richard have been working on throughout the winter. It was recently showcased at MIP and generated a lot of interest amongst TV companies throughout the world. So in closing why not have a watch of the trailer for The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes. Hope you enjoy it.

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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.

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A curse on our London walks

Monday, April 19th, 2010

We’re steaming ahead now with our free London walks and as part of that project we’re ploughing through hours of video that we’ve shot in London over the last two year.

As we did so we came across footage of the routine that Richard used to do on his London Ghost Walks when he would get one member of the group to place a curse upon the other.

Hope you enjoy it!

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Haunted Britain - A Most Haunted Journey

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Tomorrow Richard will set off on his journey around Haunted Britain. Time, and snow, willing he hopes to cover Oxfordshire, Bucks, Herefordshire and Worcestershire this week and possibly get down as far as Somerset.

He will be chronicling his journey on a daily blog that he hopes to update several times a day with photographs and even videos which, thanks to a new dongle, should in theory be uploaded as and when the photos are done.

You will be able to follow Richard’s tongue in cheek accout of his journey on his blog at Haunted Britain - A Most Haunted Journey .

A week tomorrow Richard will be taking the train to Edinburgh and, in addition to collecting ghostly tales, he will also be presenting a documentary on Sherlock Holmes (or at least on Dr Joseph Bell who part influenced Conan Doyle as he created the character of Sherlock Holmes).

We hope to get a few snippets of this film online in the coming weeks so that you will be able to have a peek at the Edinburgh that inspired Sherlock Holmes.

Incidentally you can have a look at clips from a film that Richard made in 2009 about  Haunted London.

In the months ahead we’re going to be providing access to several of your great films on London.

Once back from Edinburgh Richard will be filming a segment on Sherlock Holmes in London which will also go live in late February. So all in all there’s lots of great stuff in the pipeline for 2010.

But, in the meantime, why not follow Richard’s Journey through Britain’s Most Haunted Places by Clicking here?

The intention is to update the blog at least once, hopefully more, times a day so why not become a follower and chart Richard’s progress around this Spectred Isle?

The blogs here.

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Walking Jack the Ripper’s London - The book.

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Here’s a great Christmas gift idea. A signed copy of Richard’s book Uncovering Jack the Ripper’s London.

A walk through ripperland (or to be more precise the areas of Spitalfields and Whitechapel) is great - and don’t forget we do the Jack the Ripper Tour seven chilling nights a week - but how do you remember all the fascinating things you have heard?

Well Uncovering Jack the Ripper’s London tells the fascinating story of those 12 terror filled weeks in 1888 over which the Whitechapel Murders occurred.

You are taken step by step through the facts of the case;  are introduced to the police officers who hunted the ripper through one of Victorian London’s most densely populated and most crime ridden quarters;  and you learn about the way that the ripper murders became a cause that was used to bring social change into this skid row of the Victorian Metropolis.

The book is illustrated by numerous photographs that show you the area as it was then and as it is now. Some are black and white Victorian Photographs, some are full colour Photos specially commissioned for the book.

The book has been applauded as a refreshingly different look at the Jack the Ripper Murders in that it doesn’t attempt to play the “catch jack” game but rather concentrates on telling the story of the murders and how they impacted on London at the time.

The last posting day for Christmas delivery is 19th December. We will send your book by first class post within 24 hours of receiving the order.

So to order a signed copy of  Richard’s Jack the Ripper Book just click here.

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A Quick Word on London - Tours and Walks

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Just a quick look at what’s going on with our London walks in November. Richard is currently hard at work on his new book Haunted Britain, which is due for publication in October 2010.

As a result he has cut back slightly on his haunted tours of London. This Friday he will be heading to Dublin to take part in the annual Paracon at which he is a guest speaker.

He is also busy working on a project with one of England’s most esteemed actors more about which will be mentioned in the new year.

It was nice to see a great turn out for the various Halloween London walks that we laid on. Richard has now clocked up a record 29 annaul Halloween Ghost Tours which makes him one of the capital’s longest providor of Halloween walks in London!

Our free Harry Potter Tour around London is still proving very popular (you can get a copy by sending an email to harry-potter-pdf@discovery-walks.com). Tghis is our 30 page booklet that you simply print off and follow the step by step directions around the locations used in the Harry Potter films.

Two very exciting new free London walks are nearing completion and will be going live in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, our Mobile phone tours have been uploaded and our just going through the Beta stage. It is hoped that these exciting”on your phone” tours of London will be available in the new year.

Finally, we asked in the last blog how you could make a programme that included Jack the Ripper, The Titanic and The Paranormal. Well, the connection is via a man by the name of W.T Stead, who will be the feature of a full blog in the near future.

Meanwhile keep an eye on our Jack the Ripper Tours which are still filling up every night. We’re about to make an exciting announcement about this most popular of all our London walks.

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Haunted Britain - a break from London.

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

As promised yesterday our haunted London walks, will over the next few weeks be telling you about the haunted places in London that you can visit to enjoy Halloween.

Richard Jones, who is widely acknowledged as London’s best Ghost Walk Guide, is currently hard at work on his new book Haunted Britain, which is due for publication on Halloween 2010.

This will be Richard’s 17th book on the Ghosts of Britain and he has travelled the length and breadth of this spectred Isle researching and collecting ghost stories.

Anyway, the new book is going to be collection of brand new true ghost stories and venues, some of which have never found their way into print before.

Each of the chapters of the new book on Haunted Britain will open with a particularly atmospheric poem to set the mood.

Halloween Poems.

Poetry is a great inclusion in a ghost story telling session and it really can enhance the spookiness of Halloween.

Richard’s first book on Haunted Britain and Ireland opened with a poem he often uses to begin his Haunted London walks with.

He wrote this poem whilst sitting on the windswept ramparts of an old haunted castle in 1999. It is entitled hauntings.

Hauntings.

By Richard Jones.

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In screaming woods and empty rooms.

Or gloomy vaults and sunken tombs.

Where monks and nuns in dust decay.

And shadows dance at close of day.

2

Where the bat dips on the wing.

And spectral choirs on breezes sing.

Where swords of ancient battles clash.

And shimmering shades for freedom dash.

3

Where silver webs of spiders weave.

And blighted lovers take their leave.

Where curses lay the spirits low.

And mortal footsteps fear to go.

4

Where death holds life in grim embrace.

It’s lines etched on the sinner’s face.

Where e’er the march of time is flaunted.

Voices cry “This place is haunted.”

Copyright 199 - 2009. Richard Jones.

We’ll bring you a few more ghostly poems in the run up to Halloween, but in the meantime why not check out all the different London walks and ghost walks that we offer?


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London Ghost Walks - Richard Jones

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Once again tonight, Saturday, Richard Jones will be leading his Haunted London walk through the historic streets of the old City of London.

Richard is London’s leading London Ghost Walk guide and his research into paranormal London has resulted in him writing 17 books on Haunted Britain, that include two on Haunted London, plus History and Mystery Walks of London and Edinburgh.

Richard has been conducting London walks to the places where ghosts have been seen for 0ver 28 years and he is up to date on all aspects of sinister and ghostly London.

He is also one of the top Jack the Ripper tour guides in London and is the author of two acclaimed books on Jack the Ripper’s London Uncovering Jack the Ripper’s London and Jack the Ripper the Casebook.

In 2004 he wrote and produced the drama-documentary Unmasking Jack the Ripper’s, which has been hailed as the best Jack the Ripper documentary of recent years.

So why not join Richard on one of his ghost walks of London?

He does them on Fridays and Saturdays. Each of these spooky London walks last for around 1 3/4 hours and takes you into the darker recesses of the old City of London.

You can also purchase Richard’s books and dvd’s from our online bookshop.

Richard is currently working on his new book Haunted Britain and is the process of filming several programmes on Haunted London that will be released early next year.

The book has meant that Richard has had to defer part of an important London project he was working on this year until October 2010, but that means the book will be a full resource for those who want to find out about the Ghosts of Britain.

So keep reading the blog for news of all these exciting new developements from London’s leading ghost walk guide.

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