London Dungeon Jack new section

[AdamWalsh]

Have the day off work tomorrow - thinking of maybe going and seeing this Jack The Ripper section at the London Dungeon - anyone here been? Any good?
I did search on here first and couldnt find any related threads so sorry if this is a re-post.

Here is their site that mentions the "tour".

http://www.thedungeons.com/en/london-dungeon/dungeon-guide/jack-the-ripper.html

[George Hutchinson]

Hi Adam.

I worked at The London Dungeon for a year in 1998. Though it was one of the most enoyable and fun jobs I ever had, I wouldn't really recommend the place for serious study. In fact, I wouldn't recommend it for comic study either.

The whole ethos of the place is to use death, murder and torture as a means of entertainment. It does not rely on facts and always presents everything in the mythical setting of whatever it describes.

It is certainly a popular attraction and I would actually consider going again as a tourist (though the flashbacks might be too much for me and I think not working there any more would depress me).

You will certainly leave the JTR section fuming. There is a fair old amount of stuff there, but be ready for the top hat and the buxom wench. Don't expect Freddie Mercury.

PHILIP

[Limehouse]

I went to the London Dungeon quite soon after it first opened and I hated it. Being quite a serious student of social history, I disliked the fun fair 'ghost house' type of approach to history and therefore I suppose I should have known better. Rather than take my children there, I took them to the Museum of London, which they loved.

[Monty]

Limehouse,

I agree. I did it in 2003.

Id sooner walk around the area than go through that again. I suggest others do the same, talk one of Phils walks. Beleive me, youd learn a lot more.

Monty

[AdamWalsh]

ok but from the posters Ive seen on the tube recently it suggests its a new or improved Jack section.

oh well, didnt make it today but maybe Sunday, still better than sitting around indoors.

[George Hutchinson]

Hi Adam.

I don't think anything has been done to their Ripper section. They're just using it on posters at the moment on the back of Sweeny Todd (they probably have the two having a West Side Story-esque 'rumble'), the anniversary and the Docklands exhibition.

I first went to the Dungeon when I was only eight years old. I loved it. It was a very different place then. Had I gone at that time as an adult I would probably have found it terrible. Shop dummies behind chicken wire, it was.

If you want a better idea, go round the corner to The Old Operating Theatre. That's one to see!

PHILIP

[Normy]

I went to it some years ago and was crammed into a gallery along with everyone else, looking down on a mortuary slab if memory serves me well. A dummy of a doctor standing over it.
There was then a speech about nobody knowing who he was and images of suspects projected on a panel in the wall above the dummy, there was then a jet of flame which shot out across the room from above the images that took off most of my eyebrows!
That's the Ripper experience is it?

[George Hutchinson]

Hi Normy. That's The London Dungeon's Ripper Experience, yes.

Maybe not ours!

PHILIP