"East End Siege. - Guards firing at assassins from bedroom of house opposite": postcard of the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, showing soldiers armed with rifles preparing to shoot at the occupants of 100 Sidney Street. They are crouching in front of an iron bedstead

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