Although today’s London is known by its rainy days, we all perceive it as something beautiful and definitely worth visiting. Needless to say that it has rich history that will leave you speechless. The picture of London we know is far from what it was hundred years ago. Covered with fog, smoke and its streets coloured with the colour of death, London was not a place you would like to visit, let alone live in it. As the writer Joseph Conrad states, London was “one of the dark places of the earth”. Doubtlessly, one of the biggest mysteries of London hides within a framework of the Victorian Era, somewhere in the dark alleys, coloured with blood and fear for your own life.
Crime, poverty, hunger, disease, alcoholism and prostitution were main components of everyday life in the East London, all until the autumn 1888 when murder became the word of the day for all the Londoners. Every corner of Whitechapel became a potential place of work for Jack the Ripper, the most infamous serial killer of all times. Many theories have been developed over time around this name, but the real identity and the motives have never been discovered. Do you think that you could be the one?
Walking through the streets of London and visiting key locations of Ripper’s activity and getting to know who the key suspects of the time were you are entering possibly the darkest times of London’s history. Of course, the whole quest would be incomplete without visiting Ten Bells Pub – the place where Jack’s victims came to drink. With a glass of some spirit in your hand, right environment and unforgettable story in your mind who knows what can happen...