JACK THE RIPPER WALK - LONDON

NOW YOU CAN FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS

Meeting Point:-

Outside Exit Four of Aldgate East Underground Station.

7 nights a week at 7pm.

LONDON'S ORIGINAL TERROR TOUR

Join our expert guides for the ultimate Jack the Ripper Walk into the heart of the abyss as you follow in the footsteps of the world's most infamous murderer.

This widely acclaimed tour was devised by international author Richard Jones, and is led by either him or his team of handpicked freelance guides who are all experts on the Jack the Ripper  murders.

Beginning at Aldgate East Underground Station, this Jack the Ripper Walk wastes no time in taking you back to that long ago autumn of gaslit terror when Jack the Ripper stalked the very alleyways and streets through which you will walk.

It begins in a darkly sinister alleyway where the ambience of Victorian London immediately envelopes you.

Here your expert guide will set the scene of what the area was like in the 19th century.

Surrounded by buildings that have survived the march of time and progress you really will begin to feel that all manner of horrors could be lurking in the shadows.

Having set the scene, you will be lead further into what was referred to at the time as "the abyss," a warren of backstreets and alleyways that provided the backcloth against which the Jack the Ripper saga was played out.

To walk these streets today is to get the true feel of what it must have been like to live here in the late 19th century. To fill in the blanks of the buildings that are no longer standing, your guide will pass around original Victorian photographs of the streets through which you are walking so that you can see exactly what they were like at the time of the murders.

Our Jack the Ripper Walk mingles fascinating social history with gruesome facts, and is presented in a dramatic fashion that will ehthrall, entertain, engage and chill you.

You will follow the murders in a, more or less, chronological order so that you will see how the panic began to build as people realised that something quite terrible was happening on the streets and in the darker recesses of the East End of London.

You will learn about the police officers who pitted their wits against this "something " and hear how they raced against time to hunt down the monstrous miscreant before he could kill again.

You will see the pubs where the victims of Jack the Ripper, and the people of the area, tried to forget the nightmare they found themselves in.

Pubs like the Ten Bells, where Jack the Ripper's second victim was seen drinking shortly before her body was discovered in a nearby backyard.

Pubs such as the Frying Pan, where the ripper's first victim drank away the money that would have paid for a bed in a lodging house and kept her from the ripper's savage clutches.

You will see the place where the only clue that the killer ever left was discovered, and you will stand on the sites where witnesses saw the victims, possibly in the company of Jack the Ripper himself.

Finally, with the night closing around you, your expert guides will introduce you to the suspect whom they believe was Jack the Ripper.

So join us for a fascinating, though chilling, journey back to the autumn of 1888, and enjoy the experience of exploring the twists and turns of the world's most famous murder mystery on London's premier Jack the Ripper Walk.

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