Picture No | 11095661 |
Date | 1886 |
Description | West End riots: mob in St James' street 1886 |
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A mob in St James' Street, opposite the new university club. Following at an open air meeting of unemployed East End dock workers and artisans in Trafalgar Square, the people were stirred to violence following incendiary speeches, and rioted, causing havoc in the fashionable streets of the West End.
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Source | Engraving by J. F Weedon in The Illustrated London News, 13 February 1886, page 175 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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