I absolutely LOVED this tour through my old stomping ground as a teenager!! ❤ And I've had many a fascinating evening sitting with my dad (a Stepney boy) when he was alive in the 70s and 80s in the Hoop & Grapes in Aldgate drinking, eating and talking history (our favourite pastimes) 100 years later after Jack the Ripper! Thank you so much for your fascinating and beautifully orated trip into the 1880s 🙏❤
It's a shame to see high views on JTR for vids which are just sensationalist or rehashes. Especially, when meticulously researched and informative content like Richard's is overlooked.
@@andrewfuller9156 Well, not entirely overlooked. He certainly has loyal and passionate viewers, but yeah his channel is a treasure trove for anything JTR and even general victorian era stuff, and more people should absolutely know about it. I've done my part, sharing it with friends and such, and hey I'd encourage you to do the same if you haven't. I always do that for channels I love, big or small
In the 1950s my dad would take on a bike ride from Fulham to Petticoat Lane and Club Row, describing interesting places as we went. This particular video brings all that flooding back… One of your best, giving us an excellent context to the horrors of the murders.
It's oddly calming (and a little strange) to hear such a gruesome subject discussed by someone with such a soft, friendly voice. So many videos on youtube really try to ramp up the drama with overblown voiceovers. Thank you for keeping it calm and sedate!
This is absolutely the most comprehensive and complete video I’ve ever watched about London and Whitechapel during Jack the Ripper. It answers almost every question imaginable. It contains a treasure of history and knowledge. Thank you so much!
Fascinating journey. So much of London's history that I know nothing of. My close ancestors all lived in the East end and its surrounds and the more I see of these times the more I appreciate how they moved their way out of the slums to give their children and grandchildren a better life. On Christmas day, I remember them all with affection and love. You have a new subscriber.
What a brilliant episode again Richard. Thank you. I thoroughly enjoy your channel and am fascinated when it comes to anything to do withJack The Ripper and also London from that time period. Looking forward to what will be coming up next. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Richard, that was a brilliant tour. I last walked those streets over ten years ago, not yet knowing enough details and missing some key locations that have greatly changed since. But I look forward to my next visit. I promise I won't bring my black bag....
One of the most striking books I've read is Jack London People of the Abyss, definitely worth a read for a first hand account of the horrible conditions people lived in. Makes the road to wigan pier seem like a picnic in comparison.
This video is one-of-a-kind to watch if you've got a passion for late Victorian London and the RIpper case. Thanks so much, Richard, and Happy XMas Holidays!!!
Loved this..Being my home town, I have always had an interest From Roman to the world of Samuel Pepys and the second world war. These I worked on the River, and I have driven London' Busses. Its Poetry Architecture, and History are in my blood.. If there was such a thing as a Ghost, then my Ghost is walking these familiar streets today..🍷 Today
Wonderful video Richard of that journey thru time and to see it how it was. Really enjoyable and many people could learn so much from watching your videos. I want to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and best wishes in the New Year. You keep old London alive Richard!
"this is bordering on harassment" - exactly what do those policemen want with us??? ;) Thank you for another great virtual tour (it's like a Christmas gift early!).
Only ten minutes in but just to say wow. This is fantastic stuff thank you. Don't know if you're familiar with the Lee Jackson website, Dictionary of London? It offers a detailed compilation of first hand accounts of EVERYTHING in Victorian London A - Z, and is an extremely rich and valuable source of information 👍
I used to walk this route quite often to get home from central London. I usually got tired and hopped a bus at bank or cut down to catch the train at tower bridge. Very interesting to hear all the context.
FANTASTIC INFORMATION, AND WHAT AN AMAZING HISTORY LONDON HAS. I LOVE THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLES OF THAT PERIOD. HOW MUCH OF IT WAS LOST TO THE LUFTWAFFE? BUT, ON THE DARK-SIDE, IT MUST HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ,TO WALK THOSE STREETS AT NIGHT, JUST LIKE NOW ! WITH ALL THESE KNIFE ATTACKS, BUT, WITHOUT A SINGLE EXCUSE.
Thanks, that was really interesting to watch. have been carrying out family research to find out about my grandfather, (whom I knew nothing about), and have discovered that he was actually born in 1888 in Bethnal Green.
From what I heard elsewhere the West End of London was undergoing rapid development but the East End which badly needed investment was having to absorb a larger and larger population in limited space.
Richard is ☝of the Best Quality Presentations on Saucy Jack The Ripper,the other Master of Jack is Owen Neidhart who studies every bit of info on Jack etc,I did notice that the Ship's/⛵ always came to port just before the murderer 's,👍 as usual 👋Richard 🙂
Ironic and sad. I work in Oakland CA and it has a square named for Jack London as he frequently spent time in Oakland. Oakland has become an abyss for homelessness, crime and drugs of all kinds...lost all major sports team in a 5 year window, shipyard is all that's keeping it breathing.
I absolutely LOVED this tour through my old stomping ground as a teenager!! ❤
And I've had many a fascinating evening sitting with my dad (a Stepney boy) when he was alive in the 70s and 80s in the Hoop & Grapes in Aldgate drinking, eating and talking history (our favourite pastimes) 100 years later after Jack the Ripper!
Thank you so much for your fascinating and beautifully orated trip into the 1880s 🙏❤
I really appreciate the amount of work that went into this video. It was excellently presented and very informative! Thank you!
Thank you Ned, very kind of you.
I love your channel! It's criminal that it's not at 100k subs. Some of the best Jack the Ripper videos I've watched came from right here.
Very kind of you to say so.
It's a shame to see high views on JTR for vids which are just sensationalist or rehashes. Especially, when meticulously researched and informative content like Richard's is overlooked.
@@andrewfuller9156 Well, not entirely overlooked. He certainly has loyal and passionate viewers, but yeah his channel is a treasure trove for anything JTR and even general victorian era stuff, and more people should absolutely know about it. I've done my part, sharing it with friends and such, and hey I'd encourage you to do the same if you haven't. I always do that for channels I love, big or small
Not only top notch video/audio production but also Rich excels at interviews. One of the best channels on YT, compared to any other topic or genre
WHO COULD ARGUE.
This was a very interesting and fascinating tour 👍
Thank you for saying so.
You are an absolute treasure Richard! Love and light to you and yours sir👍🏻👏🏻
Thank you kindly, and to you and yours also.
Ohh, I do enjoy your channel Richard, thank you so much for all the work you put into your videos.They are excellent ! Wishing you a Merry Christmas 🙂
Thanks you for saying so. And a very merry Christmas to you also.
Fascinating video,im a big fan of your channel just love hearing about Victorian London,thank you.Merry Christmas & A Happy new year 🎉
Thank you for your kind words. And may I wish you also a happy Christmas and New Year.
In the 1950s my dad would take on a bike ride from Fulham to Petticoat Lane and Club Row, describing interesting places as we went. This particular video brings all that flooding back… One of your best, giving us an excellent context to the horrors of the murders.
That's really kind of you. I'm glad it brought back memories.
Merry Christmas and thank you for the upload.
A Merry Christmas to you also. Mark.
It's oddly calming (and a little strange) to hear such a gruesome subject discussed by someone with such a soft, friendly voice. So many videos on youtube really try to ramp up the drama with overblown voiceovers. Thank you for keeping it calm and sedate!
Very kind of you to say so, Nick.
I completely agree. No overly dramatic voice or creepy music is refreshing.
This is absolutely the most comprehensive and complete video I’ve ever watched about London and Whitechapel during Jack the Ripper. It answers almost every question imaginable. It contains a treasure of history and knowledge. Thank you so much!
Thank you for such a lovely compliment, Albert. I'm pleased you enjoyed the video.
Great video as always!
Thank you.
Love your videos, Richard. May your Christmas be merry and blessed.
A happy Christmas to you as well.
I loved that. Thanks Richard
Thank you, pleased you enjoyed it.
That was really enjoyable. You also have the perfect voice for it
I love how Richard can transport me back into time so well I can see myself as a Victorian.
Wonderful historical perspective Richard and you are a wonderful and entertaining narrator
That is very kind of you, Perry.
Fascinating journey. So much of London's history that I know nothing of. My close ancestors all lived in the East end and its surrounds and the more I see of these times the more I appreciate how they moved their way out of the slums to give their children and grandchildren a better life. On Christmas day, I remember them all with affection and love. You have a new subscriber.
New video, woohoo!!🎉🎉🎉
Ive been longing for a new video.
Excellent! Thank you!!
You are so welcome!
Superb video Richard! Thank you and merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you, and a merry Christmas to you also.
Richard has posted a video! Happy Sunday to me!
Hope you enjoyed it!
This was brilliant. So well researched and loved the pictures.
Is it just me or does this guy have the best, soothing voice to go to sleep to?
NOT DURING, BUT AFTER.
Thanks for another great historical vid, Mr. Jones -- always appreciated! ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
What a brilliant episode again Richard. Thank you. I thoroughly enjoy your channel and am fascinated when it comes to anything to do withJack The Ripper and also London from that time period. Looking forward to what will be coming up next. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you for your kind words. And may I also wish you and yours a very merry Christmas.
Always enjoy. Thanks very much. Merry Christmas, Mr. Jones. All the best in the New Year.
Thank you, very kind of you to say so. Have a great Christmas, and also wishing you a happy New Year.
What an interesting journey that was. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you for always providing such wonderful insight. Happy Holidays 👍👍🍻
Thank you for your kind words Matthew, I'm really pleased you enjoyed the video. Happy Holidays to you.
Richard, I so enjoyed this video. Thank you. Happy Holidays!
Thank you, Alexa, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. And Happy Holidays to you as well.
Very insightful and enjoyable, great vid.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was a great video of the geography of the area! Very interesting.
Many thanks!
This is the coolest video I’ve ever seen!!! It is so fascinating to see how things were all that time ago.
Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
This was really interesting Richard, I could listen to you talk for hours, Merry Christmas & here's to the next video 🥂🌲🥳
Glad you enjoyed it, and a very merry Christmas to you also, Bex.
Fantastic, i loved this history walk ,keep em coming.
Much appreciate the time it must have taken to make this brilliant, imformative video. Absolutely enthralled from start to finish. 👍
Thank you, Terry, very kind of you to say so.
Thank you Richard, always enjoy your videos.Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
Thank you, Lynn. And wishing you a happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Very good. 👏🏽
Might have to try and find that book myself. Fascinating.
Richard, that was a brilliant tour. I last walked those streets over ten years ago, not yet knowing enough details and missing some key locations that have greatly changed since. But I look forward to my next visit. I promise I won't bring my black bag....
Thanks Rollin, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it. Black bags are always optional!
Excellent video Richard amazing research and narration by you .
Thank you kindly
Fascinating. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video - season's greetings.
Many thanks, Rick. Greetings to you as well, hope you have a great Christmas.
This is so cool. Thanks for posting this!❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was great! I really enjoyed it. It's sad to know that so many of those beautiful buildings are long gone.
Thank you, John, very nice of you to say. Yes, I was looking at the photographs thinking I wish some of them were still around.
One of the most striking books I've read is Jack London People of the Abyss, definitely worth a read for a first hand account of the horrible conditions people lived in. Makes the road to wigan pier seem like a picnic in comparison.
This video is one-of-a-kind to watch if you've got a passion for late Victorian London and the RIpper case. Thanks so much, Richard, and Happy XMas Holidays!!!
Glad you enjoyed it, and happy holidays to you as well.
Brilliant as always Richard... BIG LOVE sir, Jamie 🎩🔪
Thanks, Jamie, and the same to you as well.
Merry Christmas Richard!
Merry Christmas to you as well.
These are history videos better than most of what’s on Netflix or the History Channel these days. They’re also quite entertaining ❤
Well done.
Loved this..Being my home town, I have always had an interest
From Roman to the world of Samuel Pepys and the second world war.
These I worked on the River, and I have driven London' Busses.
Its Poetry Architecture, and History are in my blood..
If there was such a thing as a Ghost, then my Ghost is walking these familiar streets today..🍷
Today
Thank you very much Richard 👍
You are very welcome, Dermot.
Excellent Thank you
My pleasure.
Wonderful video Richard of that journey thru time and to see it how it was. Really enjoyable and many people could learn so much from watching your videos.
I want to wish you a wonderful Yuletide and best wishes in the New Year. You keep old London alive Richard!
Thank you for your kind words, Phillips, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. And a merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and yours.
Really great video and commentary. Fantastic collection of wonderful photos.
Great work.
These are so well researched and put together they're easily my favourite RUclips show.
I can see the person/persons counting the "obscene" material taking their sweet time 😂
Very good!
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome video. I enjoyed every minute of it. Great job. Thanks so much.
I bet in 20 years school students will be able to put in a VR headset and go wander the streets of roman, medival and victorian London.
Well done . This is as close as I will ever come to time travel . Thank you .
Very informative , an excellent documentary. 🇬🇧
I loved everything about this video.
Absolutely brilliant video giving a whole new perspective on Jack the Ripper’s contemporary London…
Cheers Richard very interesting video !
"this is bordering on harassment" - exactly what do those policemen want with us??? ;)
Thank you for another great virtual tour (it's like a Christmas gift early!).
My pleasure, pleased you enjoyed it.
Only ten minutes in but just to say wow. This is fantastic stuff thank you.
Don't know if you're familiar with the Lee Jackson website, Dictionary of London? It offers a detailed compilation of first hand accounts of EVERYTHING in Victorian London A - Z, and is an extremely rich and valuable source of information 👍
Thank you, very kind of you to say.
Love this great work
Very interesting and very well done
Love this video so much. Great job
Terrace housing is still very popular, court housing seems to be a thing of the past.
Excellent video. Thanks for uploading.
Fascinating. Great work
That was interesting, I played it picture in picture in Google maps, it's amazing how many buildings are still recognisable.
That was a lovely tour
Thank you, pleased you enjoyed it.
Greatly would enjoy and have a book/dvd of your presentations.
Thus is educational entertainment of the first level.
That is really kind of you, Lester, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.
Thank you merry Christmas and happy new year 😂
And a merry Christmas and happy new year to you Phillip.
Thank you❤
My pleasure.
Extremely interesting.
Thank you.
What an brilliant video
Thank you, Danny. Have a great Christmas.
Great Loved the whole story
Wonderful insight into 19th century london! Please think about SE too, Greenwich, Woolwich, Blackheath. Cheers!
I used to walk this route quite often to get home from central London. I usually got tired and hopped a bus at bank or cut down to catch the train at tower bridge. Very interesting to hear all the context.
I’m a Londoner and know the areas you spoke about. I thought it was very interesting, thank you
Would loved to have seen London at this period!
Wonderful history Thanks John in Chicago
The good ol' days.
Indeed.
Interesting. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
FANTASTIC INFORMATION, AND WHAT AN AMAZING HISTORY LONDON HAS. I LOVE THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLES OF THAT PERIOD. HOW MUCH OF IT WAS LOST TO THE LUFTWAFFE? BUT, ON THE DARK-SIDE, IT MUST HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ,TO WALK THOSE STREETS AT NIGHT, JUST LIKE NOW ! WITH ALL THESE KNIFE ATTACKS, BUT, WITHOUT A SINGLE EXCUSE.
Thanks, that was really interesting to watch. have been carrying out family research to find out about my grandfather, (whom I knew nothing about), and have discovered that he was actually born in 1888 in Bethnal Green.
Quite a lot of the slum housing wasn't cleared until after WWII I think.
Love the bit about the water flavoured by sewage and rotting corpses. It's like a foreshadowing of our privatised water industry.
From what I heard elsewhere the West End of London was undergoing rapid development but the East End which badly needed investment was having to absorb a larger and larger population in limited space.
Very thought provoking.
Brown bag gag : very funny 😂😂😂
Glad you liked it, I couldn't resist that one!
Richard is ☝of the Best Quality Presentations on Saucy Jack The Ripper,the other Master of Jack is Owen Neidhart who studies every bit of info on Jack etc,I did notice that the Ship's/⛵ always came to port just before the murderer 's,👍 as usual 👋Richard 🙂
My wonderful home city sadly no longer as glorious as it once was
Brilliant
Very interesting
James Kelly definitely an interesting suspect for me, not sure of his whereabouts but he sounds like he had a violent unstable mind.
Ironic and sad. I work in Oakland CA and it has a square named for Jack London as he frequently spent time in Oakland. Oakland has become an abyss for homelessness, crime and drugs of all kinds...lost all major sports team in a 5 year window, shipyard is all that's keeping it breathing.
How many Pubs in Whitechapel actually survived into the 21st century??
I can think of seven off hand.
"Big Ben" is the name of the bell in the clocktower.