mitre square

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mitre square

n
(Tools) a tool with two blades that are at a fixed angle to one another, used to bevel a mitre joint
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CLIMB (2011), BY JULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE This three-metre-tall obelisk can be found on Mitre Square - City A.M.
murder scene Mitre Square, where Catherine Eddowes, below, was killed
1888: Jack the Ripper butchered two more women - Elizabeth 'Liz' Stride, found behind 40 Berner Street, and Catherine 'Kate' Eddowes, in Mitre Square, both in London.
Hers had been a tragic life of highs and lows, and on the night she was preyed on by The Ripper in a secluded corner of Mitre Square, Catherine was at her lowest ebb: gin drunk and immersed in a violent relationship.
1888: Jack the Ripper butchered two more women - Elizabeth'Liz' Stride, found behind 40 Berner Street, and Catherine 'Kate' Eddowes, in Mitre Square, both in London.
St James Passage and Mitre Square Whitechapel where Jack the Ripper struck in 1888
The monster more than made up for that with victim No4, who was discovered the same day a short walk away in Mitre Square.
1888: Jack the Ripper butchered two more women - Elizabeth "Liz" Stride, found behind 40 Berner Street, and Catherine "Kate" Eddowes, in Mitre Square, both in London.
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