"The Battle of Stepney: The Anarchists' House on Fire": postcard of the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, showing 100 Sidney Street in flames, with smoke pouring from an upper floor window. Groups of police officers and onlookers are standing by the side of the road. The shop of M. Koffel, boot and shoe manufacturer, can be seen on the right of the photograph

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