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Date post added: 21st November 2024

If you’re thinking about going on the Thanksgiving Day (November 28th) VIP, Guaranteed Small Group Ripper Tour grab it while you can. Because there are only two places left. And the Friday one – November 29th – is already sold out.

Goes without saying that the image is AI-generated. But with a guide as good as Richard Walker – his delivery (it takes a gifted actor to weave the spell Richard weaves), his command of the material and where he takes you – well, Richard makes good on that image. Time slips its moorings on Richard Walker’s Ripper walk. That voice of his at your ear you’re in two different time streams; you’re there, in the present, in the East End of London in 2024; but you’re also in the dark heart of the London of 1888. You’re in the place the great Romantic poet Shelley caught, pinned and writhing, when he said, “Hell is a city much like London.” But don’t just take it from me, Richard’s Guaranteed Small Group Ripper tour has racked up 140 five-star reviews. I’m not a disinterested party, Richard’s customers are.


David Tucker

The doyen of London walking tour guides, David is the Seigneur of this favoured realm (London Walks). A literary historian and retreaded academic (London University Ph.D. on Dickens) and former television news editor, he broods over words, breeds enthusiasms and is "unmanageable." For good measure, he's a balterer, a logophile and a lifelong thanatophobe.

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