"Scots Guards firing at house in Sidney St. where Houndsditch Assassins were": postcard of the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, showing Scots Guards lying in the road with rifles trained on 100 Sidney Street, where two Latvian revolutionaries were holed up. Police officers are standing near them and onlookers are hanging from upper floor windows behind them

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