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London: Jack the Ripper Guided Walking Tour

1. London: Jack the Ripper Guided Walking Tour

Hit the streets of East End London on a Jack the Ripper mystery walking tour. Head back to 1888 with your expert Ripperologist guide as you try to solve the still-unsolved murders on this immersive experience. Assess photographic evidence and hear true stories about the investigation to suss out the suspects. 'Investigate’ the alleged perpetrators and hear about the theories as to who committed some of the most shocking crimes in Britain's history. Learn more about the victims and everyday life in Whitechapel which was an impoverished neighborhood at the time. Your guide will even share gems about Victorian London, including the cultural context for enduring figures such as Sherlock Holmes.  Was Jack the Ripper ever close to being caught? Why did he choose Whitechapel? Where was any evidence discovered? Find all this out and more with your Ripperologist guide. Stops include:  • Brick Lane  • Christ Church  • Spitalfields Market • Mitre Square • Petticoat Lane • Ten Bells Pub

London: Jack the Ripper Walking Tour with Ripper-Vision

2. London: Jack the Ripper Walking Tour with Ripper-Vision

Journey back to a time when the streets of London were shrouded in fog and dimly lit by gaslight on this walking tour. Step into Victorian London using Ripper-Vision a unique handheld projector that emblazons images of crime-scenes, mortuary photos, and suspects onto the streets of Whitechapel. Follow in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper using Ripper-Vision. Investigate his gruesome crimes. Benefit from the services of a guide dedicated to one of the most notorious - and mysterious - criminals in history. Try to discover who Jack the Ripper was using modern methods of criminal profiling. Marvel as your guide reveals the man the police should have been looking for during the biggest manhunt in British history.

London: Jack the Ripper 2-Hour Evening Walking Tour

3. London: Jack the Ripper 2-Hour Evening Walking Tour

Take a journey through the dark, dirty, and murderous streets of Victorian London. Enter the secret world of violence, prostitution, and gin, overshadowed by the menace of Jack the Ripper. Join this 2-hour Jack the Ripper evening walking tour and see the sites where the infamous stalker murdered his victims, and walk along the very streets where the crimes were committed. Hear about the salacious side of Victorian life and learn about the slums and inner-city poverty in the 1880s. This is a chance to finally separate fact from fiction, and get to know exactly what Jack the Ripper did to the women he victimized. You’ll get to play detective as well when you’re given a profile of some of the most likely suspects. So, get out your magnifying glass and try to figure out whodunnit!   

London: Jack the Ripper Museum Tickets

4. London: Jack the Ripper Museum Tickets

As you step through the front door of the Jack the Ripper Museum you’ll take a step back in time to the London murders of 1888 and be immersed in the dark world of Jack the Ripper and his victims. Explore Mitre Square, and see a realistic and terrifying waxwork recreation of P. C. Watkins discovering the body of Catherine Eddowes. Once you have seen the murder, meet the murderer by visiting Jack the Ripper's sitting room, complete with medical instruments, books, maps, letters, and a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful Victorian Ripper memorabilia. Pride of place goes to prime suspect Walter Sickert’s original drawing of the body of a woman on a metal bed, appropriately signed in red ink. Whitechapel Police Station was the epicenter of the Ripper investigation. In the museum's recreation of the Police Station, you’ll see all the evidence presented on the crime scene boards. Inspect the From Hell and Dear Boss letters, as well as original newspapers and police artifacts. See the whistle that P. C. Watkins blew to call for help when he found the body in Mitre Square, together with his notebook, handcuffs, and truncheon which are on display to the public for the first time. These are the most significant Ripper-related items outside Scotland Yard’s private Crime Museum. In the attic of the museum, you'll see a recreation of Mary Jane Kelly’s bedroom, the scene of the Ripper’s most horrific murder. Experience how his victims lived and hear the life stories of the women he murdered. This poignant and moving room displays domestic photographs of the women and their families, boots, bonnets, a metal-framed bed with a straw mattress, and the meager possessions of poor Victorian East End women. Finally, if you dare, enter the morgue, where you can study the actual autopsy photos and read the reports of the horrific mutilation and murder of the 9 women that fell victim to the Ripper's knife.

Jack The Ripper Tour in London's East End

5. Jack The Ripper Tour in London's East End

Take a spine chilling walking tour of London's historic Whitechapel district, and follow in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper's terrifying killing spree of the autumn of 1888. The 2-hour tour explores how a series of terrible murders gripped the East End of London. It’s a story that can send shivers down your spine to this very day. The discovery of a body set in motion one of the most famous man-hunts in London’s criminal history. For over 120 years Ripperologists and amateur sleuths have been trying and failing to discover the identity of the man known as Jack the Ripper. Throughout the tour you will explore the historical background of the Whitechapel murders and their passing into a genre almost in their own right. Examine how public perception of these gruesome but gripping crimes has been shaped, and compare it to the reality of 1888 as you go to the actual sites of the murders.

London: Jack The Ripper Tour with Free Fish and Chips

6. London: Jack The Ripper Tour with Free Fish and Chips

Uncover the dark side of London and learn about some of the city’s most notorious murder cases on this Jack the Ripper tour. Try a traditional English dish — fish and chips — at one of London's oldest chip shops. Choose between a walking tour or a walking and bus tour. During the tour, hear about how the Whitechapel area of London was enveloped in fear for three months during the late 19th century. Find out about a spate of murders known as the "Whitechapel Murders," where five women were murdered and brutally mutilated by a killer that was never caught. Visit the real-life murder locations with your guide, who will paint a picture of life in Victorian London at the time. Along the way, discover all the evidence and clues as well as all the gruesome details behind the murders, such as how the killer mutilated his victims in trademark fashion. Begin the walking tour outside the Whitechapel Gallery, in the heart of what was Jack the Ripper country, and see areas of London dating back to Victorian times. Your guide will issue you with special VOX personal headsets so you don't miss a word of this intimate and chilling experience. To this day, the identity of the killer remains a mystery, and well over a hundred theories exist that attempt to lift the veil on the identity of one of history's most elusive murderers. Join the investigation as you assess the facts and try to make up your own mind — who was Jack the Ripper? During the tour, you'll be treated to a taster of typical fish and chips at one of London's most traditional and authentic "chippies." You'll also visit Spitalfields Market and see the Ten Bells pub, the rumored hunting ground of Jack The Ripper.

London: Jack The Ripper and Sherlock Holmes Bus Tour

7. London: Jack The Ripper and Sherlock Holmes Bus Tour

Step aboard a luxury air-conditioned bus, and journey through the haunted streets of London after dark. Along the way, hear stories about the legends buried at Westminster Abbey, and see the banqueting house where Charles I was beheaded. A guide will explain how the public executioner would often raise a severed head to the crowd to show it still twitching for several seconds after the brutal blows. Continue to the Old Bailey, where numerous public hangings once took place. Pass the Royal London Hospital where the “Elephant Man” once lived. Be spooked by tales of Mrs. Lovett’s pie fillings, which she sold from her shop next to a butcherous barber. Then, walk through a deserted Smithfield Market, looking for the William Wallace plaque where Braveheart was tortured. Learn about the 19th-century body snatchers that dug up local cemeteries “in the interests of science.” Listen out for the scratching of the Cock Lane ghost, Fanny Lynes, and hear her story of sex, loan sharks, arsenic poisoning, and séances. As the shadows lengthen, drive into London's East End, a hotbed of crime and vice in the 19th century. Relive the days of Jack the Ripper, when he came out of the fog and dimly lit alleys to stalk and butcher 5 victims. Stroll the path of his death trail to the murder sites, deciphering the evidence of the still-unsolved crimes. End in the warmth of the Sherlock Holmes Pub, where a wide collection of Holmes memorabilia is on display. The pub also serves an extensive menu of food, including a traditional fish and chip supper, which you can order from the bar.

London: Jack the Ripper Walking Tour

8. London: Jack the Ripper Walking Tour

Go back in time to 1888 and trace the bloody trail of one of the world’s most infamous serial killers. On this 2-hour walking tour you’ll be introduced to the history of Jack the Ripper, whose murders still haunt London to this day. The murder spree sparked one of the greatest manhunts in British history. Jack the Ripper’s identity has never been discovered. Learn about the gruesome details of the murders and the investigations that unsuccessfully attempted to capture the killer. Hear about the theories and the real facts as you walk along the streets that once were stalked by Jack the Ripper.

London: Jack the Ripper Sunset Private Guided Walking Tour

9. London: Jack the Ripper Sunset Private Guided Walking Tour

Explore the historical context of the Whitechapel murders. Discover how the public perception of these horrific but fascinating crimes was shaped and compare that perception with the reality of 1888 by discovering the locations where Jack the Ripper's crimes were committed. Play detective by choosing from a selection of plausible suspect profiles. Get out your magnifying glass and notebook and start your investigation! Your private guide will meet you in the Whitechapel district to explore the places where Jack the Ripper committed his horrific crimes in the 1888s. The East London area has never forgotten his deeds and through this tour your guide will tell you all about his actions and victims. You will be like detectives solving puzzles during this evening, it will be a fun and scary evening for the whole group.

London: Jack the Ripper Guided Walking Tour

10. London: Jack the Ripper Guided Walking Tour

Your guide Paul Mansfield a Ripperologist for over 18 years will guide you around the cobbled alleyways and dark spooky streets of Whitechapel East London where you will see pubs dating back to 1721 and see a Victorian bath house and a Jewish soup kitchen for the Jewish poor. The area is famous for Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, Karl Marx, The Elephant Man,and the Bodysnatchers and The Krays. Your guide will tell you the history of the area and show Victorian photos of the times so you can understand the poverty and crime the area had. Life was cheap and murder was commonplace in the East End. With twenty murders a night in the Whitechapel area it was a difficult job for the police who were overworked and not solving many crimes.

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Hannah, our tour guide, was a very friendly, engaging, and knowledgable ‘Ripperologist’. Knew the murder sites well and gave comprehensive accounts of the facts of each case, while paying respect and homage to Jack the Ripper’s victims. Struck a great balance of educational and fun while also endulging in various conspiracy theories surrounding the topic of who Jack the Ripper could be. I’d definitely recommend this to anyone visiting and/or wanting to learn about the infamous Jack the Ripper, and his surroundings of London’s grimey Victorian rookery history in the heart of Whitechapel. Ideal value for money.

Nice and informative your. The guide will tell you more about the history of the Whitechapel district, about the victims and about the suspects in the case.

It was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed the entire tour, at the end when he gave us the theory he believes in, it was really interesting!

great guide, very enthusiastic and passionate. All over very interesting 10/10

The guide was very interesting, involved and very clear