The Jack The Ripper Tour London

Established by Richard Jones in 1982 the original Aldgate East Jack the Ripper Tour (www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com) is an expert led walk around the Whitechapel Murder sites that is conducted by expert guides who have written books about Jack the Ripper.
In this short video Richard gives some of the history of how he came to start the tour and provides you with a synopsis of why he believes this to be the best of the London tours that cover history's most infamous sequence of murders. He also explains, step by step, the route that the tour takes, whilst the evocative accompanying footage, shot on an actual tour, which was conducted by leading Ripperologist Philip Hutchinson, really captures the mood and the mystery of the World's greatest whodunit.

[@MultiRabe]

Your son’s reply to his teacher was hilarious 😂

[@ethanol1586]

I'm from America and in 2019 I was able to go on a school trip in my sophomore year to London and we took this tour! It was such an incredible experience and one of the most memorable parts of the trip

[@leonalmeida858]

Can’t wait to travel again. We plan to go to London and my wife loves spooky tours. This sounds perfect.

[@JoannaLamont333]

I love the fact you show the buildings that are still there today. That makes it feel more real as the new builds have no character or personality. The cobbled road & those arches that were so common at that time in the 1800’s. Love it, really great video. Thank you.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thank you for your kind words, Joanna.

[@Oakleaf700]

I used to live in Swaton Road for a short time in 1977, and walked from the West End via the City through Whitechapel..to the house in Bow ..there was a pub then that I remember had Jack the Ripper signs outside, and it was an eerie feeling in the early hours of the night to know that this was the area where the poor women resided. For me, it is Mary Kelly that utterly appalls..Millers Court. I wonder if the site where Millers Court was retains any vibes..one would think so, but perhaps bright light and the new buildings raised high above the ground have expunged any lingering vibes. Mary Kelly's room must have been miserably cold, with it's broken windowpane and open fire..yet she was just dressed in a thin chemise at the time of her slaying? despite the November Chill. That dank echoing passageway has long gone- I worked in Heathcock Court, Strand, and that too was very narrow and enclosed, opening to a small area where the offices were. Gloomy in winter, even in the twentieth century.

[@fasthracing]

The Ten Bells did for a while change its name to "Jack the Ripper" but was made to change its name back to the Ten Bells

[@TheIndependentLens]

@@fasthracing I think I’d rather go to a pub called The Ten Bells 🔔 as opposed to Jack the Ripper 🪦. Just me I guess?

[@TheIndependentLens]

For a long time the infamous crime scene photo of her, I couldn’t really see very clearly because it would always be too grainy, dark or just not that clear. When I finally saw a clear picture I was in shock at the amount of mutilation done to Mary Kelly. I could understand why over a century later it was not forgotten and these murders have remained studied. Oh MILLER’S COURT remained an infamous murder site for various murders after Mary Kelly.

[@Iain1983]

I have been lucky enough to have done this tour twice, once with John Bennett and once with Phillip Hutchinson.

[@abbiev-t5816]

January 26th 2018 I did this tour on my last night in London before flying home to Australia. I'm a history nut and enjoyed every moment. Philip was marvellous. Thankyou so very much

[@JackTheRipperTours]

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[@sam200985]

I went on the walk with Philip Hutchinson in 2017. Loved it and hopefully back again soon . Great video x

[@JackTheRipperTours]

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[@sylotiboy4166]

Funny thing is that I live near Whitechapel and I haven’t been on a Jack the Ripper tour but I’ve visited most of the murder sites

[@erinsdatter32]

The tour was very interesting. Great tour guides! Definetly worth it!

[@MsSmudge14]

I flew from Canada in 1999 and I really enjoyed the tour.

[@scottshorrorcollectables4123]

London has changed a hell of a lot over 20 years and not for the better

[@lucyinwonderlandart]

Booked my ticket to go on this tour tomorrow. I can't wait!

[@ktfp]

I would highly recommend them. I love learning about Victorian London and found the tour fascinating.

[@fizzao1342]

If we ever stay in London again, we're definitely going on your tour.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Hope to see you, one day.

[@Louiseskybunker]

Beautiful work Richard.

[@miladydewinter7770]

Next time I'm back in the UK I will take this tour. Something else on my bucket list.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Looking forward to welcoming you.

[@briangoudie3531]

Went on this tour a few years back I think 2006.....meeting point was tower hill with the guide a smallish man whitish hair and glass he was very theatrical great guy ....loved it the mix of old and modern london...to walk them streets 100 odd years later ..and too know wot happened in the pointed out exact areas is amazing....loved it

[@gazza2933]

Interesting and thought provoking video. Thank you. 👍🏻

[@Iain1983]

Did your tours firstly in 2009 when John Bennet took us round and again in 2015 when Phillip Hutchinson guided us.. both fantastic tours.

[@warcrypublishing]

This guy's a legend I love his stuff.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thank you.

[@riggstwenty2]

I did the tour last year. Highly recommended.

[@holdiver307]

Marketplaces ruined it didn't they immigration problem is horrible

[@cfx5000]

Definitely on my Bucket List.

[@donutves]

I went on one of these tours and it was great, I didn't see the guide in this video but I think his name was Alex

[@sixer6er]

You make the best videos so looking forward to this when I’m eventually over

[@JackTheRipperTours]

That is so kind of you, thank you.

[@LanceHarding]

MY introduction to you was seeing you on the Most Haunted Live shows. When I saw you I thought what a Great Historian this man is. Sadly I have never been on your tour, but who knows, maybe one day.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

That brings back memories, Lance. Most Haunted.

[@LesterMoore]

Is there any social experience quite so spellbinding as a well told story? Story tellers have been with us since time immemorial. There are story tellers still holding audiences in large numbers in places such as Uzbekistan where large colorful backdrops serve to bring the observers to the sites and times of the story. Likewise these London walking tours hopefully will be about for years to come. With knowledgeable expert storytellers we may look forward to enjoying such conversational walks ourselves.

[@Mg2SiO4]

I was in London for an exhibition in February '22. Since my hotel was in Whitechapel and I have an interest in this story, I would have loved to take place to Jack the ripper tour. Unfortunately, it was not possible due to some business commitments. I was frustrated by this but next time there will not be any excuses! I will participate in the tour. Whatever it takes! Great job by a passionate man though. Well done!

[@MrDaiseymay]

Like most ordinary, people, I have always been fascinated by Britains late Victorian / Edwardian era; and the 'Jack the Ripper' horror in particular. I've read many books, and watched all the TV and Film versions, I had my favourite suspect, BUT, one issue that had to be explained, was the fact (surely) that the Ripper, just had to be badly smeared with blood, hence the suggestion by many, that ''HE' would have escaped quickly, by Hansom cab. BUT , last night on channel 5 TV. I did some 'catching up,' from 2014, when a new (to me) Ripper suspect, was introduced, in a excellent documentary. Charles Allen Lechmere, or Cross, as he told the police. I won't attempt to relate the whole documentary, but, not only was Lechmere, caught standing over victim No1, Mary Ann Nichols , it later turns out, that he was a Carman (carter, who collected and delivered raw meat, from the Abattoir. So being regularly covered in animal blood, would not appear suspicious or require explanation. Add the other main point, Lechmere moved house many times, and lived virtually at every murder spot, between home and route to his place of work. The documentary contains more condemning evidence, and some conjecture, which I considered entirely acceptable. Watch it on KZbin, and say you are not convinced. The TV prog , showed a photograph of Lechmere, taken in 1912. I must say ,that he looked nothing like a mass murderer, but then--he'd got away with it, those past 24 years.

[@PEMBYSGAMINGWORLD]

I find to this day that so-called ripper experts still refer to him as "cross" I wonder why....

[@amyelizabeth2946]

Wow sounds very interesting will look into this doing the tour tomorrow

[@etherealechoes9907]

Great comment I definitely think he's a suspect and like you have watched and read many jtr things. One thing I found was that he may not have been covered in blood. I saw one doc where it showed if he strangled the victims first and they were dead when he stated cutting them there'd be no blood spray. Also I think he could easily bring a spare coat to cover up. But if he did have blood on him like you say his profession might make a good alibi! Xx

[@sideshowmark913]

Just after getting to this channel after watching you on shaun attwood. Loved that podcast very informative

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Welcome aboard!

[@happierabroad]

they should create a little theme park about jack the ripper with foggy dark streets, victorian architecture, london bell chimes, and fake corpses laying around. that would capture the cool atmosphere of the jack the ripper movies. lol

[@rajivradha]

Great work! I can see your passion.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thank you very much!

[@rob5944]

Atmosphere, that's what it's all about. I used to try and soak it up, not in London but in my home town of Bristol. Parts of it are very reminiscent of Ripper territory, a beer and a smoke, either of and evening or a quiet Sunday afternoon in the sunshine. Why the latter? Because of one photograph of the outside of Miller's court by Leonard Matters (I think) with the woden chair outside. An old friend tried a similar thing concerning his postwar childhood, as he remarked to me once, you can get close but never quite get there.

[@karenmaher9165]

I live at the end of brick lane down a side street called grimsby street it's a cool place to live but with a dark past 😮

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

See you at Monty's in Brick Lane

[@sindydoll35]

Karen Maher.....like what? What's happened there? Apart from the Jack the Ripper connection.

[@robertbaglin3973]

Karen Maher your lucky you don’t live in the town called Grimsby because it’s a shitole and the town that time forgot.

[@pipq8809]

Omg just found this channel so awesome

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Welcome aboard!

[@davidshankland]

The heart-warming music 🤣🤣🤣

[@JaySamurai79]

With a lot of the site's having been rebuilt with modern buildings, is the JtR tours still about?

[@deanodog3667]

done the tour , it was great !

[@acastrohowell]

8/2020 is the tour still available?

[@marcusmcsharry60]

Great History Video, Narrated Very Well!!!🎩🔪🎩🔪🎩🔪🎩

[@mteufel472]

Fascinating ! , way beyond just interesting ...

[@steveafanador6441]

Are those row houses expensive to buy? I'm just a curious american who loves this stuff

[@oldskoolfool141]

Do something bad big enough and you guarantee eternal fame, interest and revenue Humans are wierd

[@gazza2933]

Morbid Curiosity.

[@lakmeister]

Nice camera angles

[@holdiver307]

Go through whitechapel now Indian market places is all that remains. Remnants of the sweet London I remember growing up vanished.

[@car56s]

Brilliant.

[@slainteron4027]

I am coming to London on the 20th. I am booking the tour for the 21st.

[@fatedestiny7402]

Ron Buckley wish you a wonderful trip:)

[@Prairiestar193]

Hope you enjoy your time over here. Try and watch "Murder by Decree" before you come over, and visit the area around Southwark Cathedral where some of it was filmed.

[@_Spy_]

Very interesting.

[@powdermik]

I will walking this tour within 3 years

[@s.coupsdetat2165]

did you make it?

[@uncleambient]

Fantastic knowledge from this man about Jack The Ripper but .... we're still no nearer knowing who he was.

[@rediscoverwithsharona]

Hello, I have over the years always being into jack the ripper, but more in the last couple of years, aspecially since I did my own video on my channel, and I love this channel and house of lechmere. I have a question I hope you can help me with. Do you know were Martha Tabram was buried, or any least the cemetery.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Hi. I'm pretty sure it was the East London Cemetery.

[@rediscoverwithsharona]

@@JackTheRipperTours So the same cemetery as Elizabeth Stread, but she does a marker or anything does she

[@lad4702]

By far 1 of the most interesting serial killers of all time!

[@ronaldm8235]

George Hutchison. Take a look at Tonybee street - there is an alleyway behind where he stayed and used. Fact. Still there. And it's a long walk from Romford after a days work. Huh! Anyone would be exhausted by then. Hello?

[@nimitz1739]

Awesome

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thank you.

[@ashleynave9400]

The very place written on Jacket the Ripper

[@heatherjenkins5745]

So, what are your thoughts on James and Michael Maybrick?

[@reigninblood123]

Heather Jenkins forged diaries

[@MrDaiseymay]

It was Charles Allen Lechmere ( or Cross, he lied to the police). He was actually found, standing over his first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, and the police let him go )see my comment above. OR BELOW

[@Johnny.5.Is.Alive.]

@@reigninblood123that was never proven. James (if true - and I will add it’s the best theory) was separate, his brother was also suspected

[@heatherjenkins5745]

I think the music is fitting. If you want gruesome, come on the tour...the video is an advert for the tour company, their expertise and the excellent narration of the presenter, who I'm sure would tell the story well without hamming it up!

[@rumpel8037]

Give it to Lechmere, it was you!

[@FiveLiver]

Definitely.

[@filipasantos6964]

We went on a tour and we loved it! :) www.malafeitauk.com/2016/02/passeio-pelos-caminhos-do-jack-ripper.html

[@JackTheRipperTours]

+Filipa Santos Thanks for your kind comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. The article looks really good.

[@user-yo2oe8re5i]

👍👍👍

[@fatjackjack5416]

Martha Tabram not turner .

[@yvy6269]

2:31 should be Martha *Tabram*

[@TheMinxy76]

She was also known as Martha Turner

[@More-than-ladyboys]

How much £?

[@sam200985]

Oscar Acosta for the walking tour? I think I paid £10 per person x

[@Ruby-ep8oc]

My dad's Jack the Ripper 😂

[@juliehawkins3816]

It wasn't until the victims were life was shown did they do something about the poverty.

[@NatashaLawes-xg3uk]

Who do you think the ripper waz?

[@eragonsbabe]

This is so fascinating to me. I’m researching the ripper and as someone who has done past life regressions and believe I was a victim after things I’ve seen in regressions I hope one day I’ll be able to experience your tour.

[@FiveLiver]

Christ Church would be my start point.

[@richardsahm2203]

Jack the Ripper is a legend nobody can touch him

[@masterassassin____1444]

Richard Sahm legand? Smh he killed 5 people

[@cerberus732]

Master Assassin - Strange. I would think someone with a screen name like yours wouldn't be so offended! Not trying to be a jerk, just a point.

[@jamierear9570]

+Master Assassin ____ more

[@norbertalbertz3918]

Unfortunately Richard sahm is right! The word legend just doesn't relate to people who've done good but also bad people! It's the JTR story itself that is legend! Therefore jack the ripper is legend

[@paibluberry8092]

hes a legende bc he killed thots

[@kevinferrari1267]

Michael Maybrick

[@cerberus732]

or Kosminski?

[@MrDaiseymay]

Naaagh ! CHARLES ALLEN LECHMERE ---or CROSS, according to the Police, who let him go.

[@Johnny.5.Is.Alive.]

@@cerberus732no

[@Johnny.5.Is.Alive.]

@@MrDaiseymayno. Both noted above have too many holes or very stretched theories.

[@angelgreer2470]

Does anybody know if this tour is Powerchair accessible 🧑‍🦼?

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Hi Angel. On the whole the tour is. The only problem is that cars sometimes park over the ramps, it can then get quite difficult getting around them.

[@angelgreer2470]

@@JackTheRipperTours Aw thank you so much for your reply. You’ve bee very helpful. Thank you so much 😊