"The Battle of Stepney: Firing line of the Scots Guards": 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 behind them

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