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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.

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?