rumour has it they will soon be organising ghost tours at Odsal .....


As a matter of interest,what did Mr Rumbelow think about the strong theory that one of Queen Victorias sons was responsable for the murders in Whitechapel ?

When we lived in London we vowed to be perpetual tourists, otherwise it's too easy to take it for granted, and there are several companies who do guided walks, showing you things that you've walked past so many times without realising the history and significance. (We went on a Theatre walk once and the guy doing the tour was Edward Petherbridge! ... he was wont to climb onto dustbins etc to point out and hold forth on what we were looking at ... sounds a bit OTT but it was actually great fun having a proper actor telling you about the theatres and old-time actors).
Books of walks around London are also pretty good but I'd advise to be careful to choose one with plenty of text rather than just pretty pictures of what you see anyway.

The boats are fun but I'd take their commentaries with a pinch of salt, they are part-fact, part-hearsay and part comedic-effect.

IIRC Mr Rumbelow is in the "the foreign Jew did it" camp. It was proved "Eddie" wasn't in London for some of the murders, but theres a theory now that possibly one or two of the ladies were not the victims of the Ripper.

this is just like ' the Geoff Hurst moment' in 1966 - did the ball cross the line or not ? basically we will never know but it's great to speculate !

It goes via Queens Gardens cop station which is said to be haunted by that black paratrooper Humberside Police managed to kill whilst in custody....Apparently.