Picture No | 11095659 |
Date | 1886 |
Description | West End riots: shops looted by rioters, 1886 |
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Articles of plunder from shops, used as missiles during the 1886 West End riots. 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 | Unattributed sketch in The Illustrated London News, 13th February 1886, page 176. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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