Above Ground on the London Underground—Day 65: Jack the Ripper is Alive and Well in London
We're back on track. If it's Friday we're back in London, taking a virtual walking tour ‘above ground’ on the London Underground. Think of me as an armchair traveler, using my Tube guide & my fitbit® device, my goal is to walk 10,000 steps a day roughly following along the Underground route, reporting back here on Fridays with my findings. We're currently following the District Line. Here are the previous days . This is Day 65 Not far from Tower Bridge, we’re close to Aldgate and Whitechapel, home to the Jack the Ripper murders. To be honest, I never bothered with the BBC Ripper Street television series and it’s possible if I weren’t so hooked on contemporary British police shows, that I wouldn’t be interested in Jack the Ripper at all. But I did get hooked on the 2009 Whitechapel television series starring Rupert Penry-Jones as D.I. Chandler—tall, aristocratic, posh and absolutely neurotic—with Phil Davis as D.S. Ray Miles—who many of you know as