Jack the Ripper walks around Spitalfields/Whitechapel/the City are frankly no longer worth doing. The area in which all but one of the murders took place has nothing left to see from Victorian times. We prefer to guide walks around the still atmospheric, interesting, creepy, cobble-streeted parts of old Whitechapel and St Georges in the East, a world away from modern day gentrification. This is where one Ripper murder took place and we tell you all about it, but rather than concentrate solely on the Ripper, we also cover other Victorian murders, a famous riot, an infamous siege and the pub where a Kray murder took place.

We start by showing you the only building remaining from the Ripper murders, aptly located in a graveyard which coincidentally also has a link to Britain’s most famous pre Ripper murders, the Ratcliffe Highway killings which took place just yards away. We then head through an area of old warehouses, old railway arches and cobbled streets to see where poor Long Liz Stride was murdered by the Ripper. En route we also see a huge, amazing wall mural telling the story of the Battle of Cable Street. We then see where two other, famous at the time, horrible Victorian murders occurred en-route to seeing where the Sidney Street Siege took place. And a stone’s throw away is where Ronnie Kray committed an infamous killing. As well as showing you all the sights and telling you all the details, we also show lots of great photographs that bring the streets of old Whitechapel back to life.

Start: Shadwell overground or DLR station
Finish: Whitechapel underground station or Blind Beggar pub