Location Location Location!

[Krinoid]

Thanks Roy for the info on Mitre Square, has research come up with anything else revealing? Is it true they sold walking sticks like Insp.Abberline had?

[Roy Corduroy]

Krinoid, I don't know if the special walking sticks were sold, like Abberline's.



Drawn to represent that era. (map here) X marks where I think the Eddowes murder was in Mitre Square five hundred years later.

This is not scientific. Roy

[Roy Corduroy]

The Goodbye Stick





Abberline's stick was discussed previously see here http://www.casebook.org/forum/messages/4924/13776.html

[Krinoid]

Was the stick on exhibit at the JTR docklands exhibit in 2008?

[Roy Corduroy]

Good question, Krinoid, but I don't know.

I said it was a retirement gift. Actually I don't know that. At his retirement dinner in 1892, Abberline was given a silver tea and coffee set. I don't know when his police colleagues gave him the walking stick.

And another mistake I made is the map in post #47. It has the priory in the wrong position. Actually backwards. I read the museum's archeology book about that and will put up a correct map shortly.

Roy

[Roy Corduroy]

Medieval Site

Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate c 1200



Red - church
Yellow - dormitories, kitchen and chapter house
Cloister (courtyard) now Mitre Square

underlying map by R Clack

[Roy Corduroy]

4 Mitre street in a photo Rob Clack shared on page 49 of the big East End thread.
Notice the supports on the building's side.




Tom Cullen's 1965 Ripper corner photo.
Note the same building supports visible above the gate across the lot.

[Rob Clack]

Just a note on the last photograph. I don't believe it was taken c1965 now. The reason I gave c1965 before was that it was in Tom Cullens book. After seeing some other photographs of Mitre Square from 1961 (no doubt about the date), the small wall and gate do not appear in them, so I believe the Tom Cullen photo is probably late 1950s.

Rob

[Roy Corduroy]

Thank you for that Rob.

If anyone wants to read the article on Mitre Square, which includes a lot of its history, just pm me and I'll email the pdf.

And thank you Jane, for sending me your article which appeared in Ripperologist 104 last summer.

Folks, if you haven't read it, go ahead and Private Message Jane with your e-mail and she will send you the article. It's that good. With the descriptions, photos, drawings and diagrams, I finally "got it."

Roy

[Krinoid]

Thanks Jane, i got a copy also weeks ago.
Mark