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Picture No 10847502
Date January 1885
Description Explosions at Houses of Parliament 1885
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The front cover of The Graphic, 31 January, 1885, reporting on dynamite explosions at the Houses of Parliament, part of a bombing campaign by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, nicknamed the 'Fenians'. Three bombs exploded on 24 January 1885. The lower picture shows the explosion in Westminster Hall, from a sketch and description by an eyewitness, Miss Davies. The upper right picture shows the scene of the explosion in the House of Commons chamber, and the upper left the effect of that explosion on the stonework of the doorway. The third explosion that day was at the Tower of London.
Source Front cover of 'The Graphic', 31 January 1885
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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