From maps and sims, I think I understand the layout of Mitre Square in 1888. But when I visited the location I was very confused. What I think was Church Passage was identified as St. James's passage, which by my understanding was a different entry into Mitre Square in 1888. I'm very confused. Is the St. James's passage, where the plaque to Kate Eddowes is, the Church Passage from 1888?
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The more common term for that passage leading from St. James Place to Mitre Square was - the Covered Passage, I know it has been referred to in modern times as St. James Passage, I just can't find a contemporary reference to it by that name.
The square then widens some seven or eight yards on each side, forming secluded corners on the north-west and south-west. Running from the north-east corner of the square is a covered passage leading to St. James's-place, otherwise known as the "Orange Market," where three men of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade are always on duty at a fire escape station until daybreak.
London Evening News, 1 Oct. 1888.Regards, Jon S.
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Wickerman, I learned the 1888 layout originally from reading Sugden but falsely remember him using the term St. James Passage to describe your green line on the map. Upon double-checking, he refers to it as the passage running from Mitre Square to St. James's place, or the Orange Market. I guess they sold oranges there? Too bad not grapes.
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