Lawende is a red herring.

[Wickerman]

Hi Wicky.

Used to be known as Mitre Court,.....

I think you'll find that Mitre Court is a miss-print for Mitre Square.

[miakaal4]

Hey guys would Eddowes have led him to that place in the corner to do the biz? I mean was that the best place on the square?

[Wickerman]

It was the darkest corner in the square.

[Simon Wood]

Close but no cigar.

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

[jmenges]

And naturally the whore would agree to it.

You seem to be intelligent person so I’m sure you can come up with something other than “the whore”.

Do so.

JM

[Abby Normal]

Close but no cigar.

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

lol!!! worst sentence ever!

[miakaal4]

Well I seem to have upset some people as well as the board. When I said "whore" above I meant in the way she would have acted, I didn't realise whore was a bad word for prostitute, the other upset is unclear. Anyway I will take my leave from this board. Good luck all, farewell. Miakaal4.xx

[Simon Wood]

Hi Abby,

But very Ripperological.

Stay well.

Simon

[Wickerman]

Close but no cigar.

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

It's the opening line to Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel, "Paul Clifford," about a highway robber during the French Revolution.

Those first seven little words have become a laughing stock of literature for their melodramatic and obvious nature. "Dark and stormy" has become so cliché, in fact, even a dog could write it. That's what fans of "Peanuts" know: Snoopy has been known to type "it was a dark and stormy night" over and over again.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/27/bcst-books-dark-and-stormy-night

Things are never the way they seem, right Simon?

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

[jmenges]

Well I seem to have upset some people as well as the board. When I said "whore" above I meant in the way she would have acted, I didn't realise whore was a bad word for prostitute, the other upset is unclear. Anyway I will take my leave from this board. Good luck all, farewell. Miakaal4.xx

Major Rule #6 states that the brutally murdered women need to be discussed and handled with sensitivity and respect and not to post anything that could be construed as degrading of the victims or women as a whole. An example of this would be calling Catherine Eddowes “the whore”.
If any member won’t take this as the simple warning it was and adjust your language accordingly, then by all means, take your leave.

JM

[DJA]

That passage was known as Mitre Passage?
You remember where you got that from?
I've looked for a name for that passage, I haven't found a map with the name on it.

1939 Goad map.

[Wickerman]

1939 Goad map.

Ah, 50 years after, ok, just some names change over time.
Thanks anyway.

[DJA]

Yep.

Like Church Passage becoming St James Passage.

Confusin' ain't it

[Wickerman]

It shouldn't be, we're talking about 1888 not 1939.

[Herlock Sholmes]

The woman dressed in black like Eddowes and her companion had most likely been sheltering from the rain.

"a few yards away" ...... the Passage was 85 feet long,plus another 77 feet for Mitre Square. That's over 50 yards.

As you’ve very kindly taken the trouble of going on to another thread to call one of my posts on here ‘dross’ I have to respond that Eddowes had her back to the man (at the corner of Church Passage) which implies that the man was between her and the wall. So she’s probably up to a yard away from the wall which hardly suggests sheltering. If they were both sheltering surely we would have expected them to have both been against the wall allowing Lawende to have seen her from the side? I only make this point as an opinion that they don’t sound to me like a couple simply sheltering. The narrow passage itself might have provided better shelter or some nearby doorway. I hope that this post isn’t construed as a part of my malign plan to infect the forum?