Tour Itinerary
Grim Reapers of London: the East End's dark secrets
Our tour begins in the 1400’s – a time long before an official police force patrolled the shadowed alleys in the city’s infamous “East End”. London was a city where the tyrants ruled and the weak were swallowed by Death’s gaping maw. This walk through the city’s gloom takes us through the site of gruesome executions, poverty, overcrowding, disease and criminality.
As we retrace the trail of the notorious Jack the Ripper murders, we get a taste for a new breed of soul harvester born of the Victorian age, the world’s first psychiatric hospital, plague pits, the Bloody Tower and Traitor’s Gate and several notoriously haunted areas of the East End. Discover how traitors and criminals were punished, why the Ripper was never caught and what life was really like for people living in the East End. In a city so full of light and beauty, this walk will show us the darkness waiting behind every corner.
On this 2.5hr walking tour we will cover:
• Jack the Ripper (victims, suspects and killing methods)
• The murky side of Victorian London
• The East End
• Crime and Punishment in Olde England
• Former Execution sites
• Subterranean London
• St Katherine’s Docks
• Spitalfields Market
• London’s most haunted building – The Tower of London
• The Plague
• Ghosts of ancient London
• Brick Lane
• The world’s first, and most notorious psychiatric hospital;
Prostitutes Church
Where and When?
The Grim Reapers of London Tour runs everyday at 6pm by the sundial directly opposite the exit of Tower Hill Underground Station.
£9 or £8 for Students (book the adult rate at "Grim Reapers of London Tour")
Just look for our guides wearing their red New Europe T-shirts! The tour runs regardless of weather 365 days a year.