I’m Richard Walker I want to give you the very best tour.
Here’s a little bit about me.
I grew up in Liverpool
Liverpool is a great city. I loved my time growing up there but by the time I was 19 I was determined to see those ‘faraway places with strange sounding names’.
I decided to go travelling and I set off through Europe. I got to the Mediterranean. I worked on yachts. And an American millionaire’s yacht got me across to the USA.
Four years later at the end of the ski season in Aspen I moved to SanDiego and bought a 25 foot wooden sailboat and crossed the Pacific down to New Zealand.
Spent a year working there and in Australia before a six month journey back to Britain where I spent three years at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in South Kensington.
I then worked as an actor for nearly 30 years before I discovered a new obsession and that was tour guiding in London.
Jack the Ripper
For 15 years, I began my story about Jack the Ripper from Tower Hill. Then came lockdown, which interestingly caused me to reassess what I'd been doing.
I decided to start where Jack the Ripper started.
That meant starting my tour at Whitechapel Station because Jack the Ripper’s first murder was committed there. Polly Nichols’s body was found right behind Whitechapel Station in Buck’s Row.
I also wanted to limit the number of people who could join me.
And I use a tour guiding system to make an even better experience. We will be linked by way of a radio transmitter and receiver through which you hear the story of Jack the Ripper with crystal clear clarity no matter what is happening around you.
I hope you’ll join me on one of my walks through Whitechapel.