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	Siege of Sidney Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the "Battle of Stepney", was a notorious gunfight in London's East End in 1911.
		The street battle was started by a small gang of Latvian anarchists under the leadership of Peter Piaktow, better known as Peter the Painter.
		The Churchill Centre: The Siege of Sidney Street
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sidney_Street_Siege (655 words)

	The Siege of Sidney Street - The Churchill Centre
		The Siege of Sidney Street - The Churchill Centre
		On 16 December 1910, a resident of Sidney Street in London's East End heard mysterious hammering noises at a house nearby and notified the Police.
		In an ensuing battle on the street, Constables Strongman, Choat and Tucker were killed by gunfire, and Gardstein was accidentally shot and mortally wounded.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=724 (1639 words)

	The Sidney Street Siege - Scenario Outline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One member of the gang shot another by mistake, and at this they ran for the entrance to the street, dragging their wounded comrade with them, while injured and dying policemen were helped by the first people to come out of the surrounding houses.
		Though casualties during the siege amounted only to one policeman wounded, the press made much of the terrible threat of the semiautomatic pistol; it was a precursor by 80 years of the semiauto hysteria of the 1990s.
		In the actual siege, the police were facing a situation that was new to them - an unknown number of suspects, well-armed with high-capacity weapons, quite a different from the usual police calls that could be handled by unarmed Bobbies.
	zeitcom.com /majgen/88sidneyst1.html (2505 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 The Long View - Sidney Street siege
		The police were armed with bulldog revolvers, shotguns and rifles fitted with.22 Morris-tube barrels for use on a minature range, but these proved completely inadequate for flushing out the gunmen, whose Mauser pistols were capable of rapid and deadly fire.
		The last shots from 100 Sidney Street were heard at 2.10pm.
		The Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sidney Street, by Donald Rumbelow.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/longview/longview_20030318.shtml (699 words)

	Metropolitan Police Service - History of the Metropolitan Police Service
		This gun battle in which troops were brought in to assist the police was unprecedented in the history of the Met.
		Although the Gardstein gang, (Latvian immigrant burglars), had already killed three policemen and injured two others when fighting their way out of the interrupted Houndsditch robbery, nobody envisaged the two men in 100 Sidney Street opening a gun battle and fighting to the death when they were surrounded with no possibility of escape.
		Three were placed on the top floor of a nearby building, from which they could fire accurately into the second storey and attic windows from which the gunmen had been shooting.
	www.met.police.uk /history/sidney_street.htm (525 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: London's East End -The Unknown East End
		The streets were most unpleasant places, the many alleyways were unlit at night and prostitutes and brothels were common place.
		The Siege of Sidney Street, E1 on 3 January 1911 was one of the most famous incidents in East End history.
		The gang dispersed to lodgings in the surrounding streets, one of which was 100 Sidney Street.
	www.britannia.com /travel/london/cockney/unknown.html (1241 words)

	BOBARTICLE3
		THE Sidney Street siege, the epic gun battle which took place in the East End of London in 1911, is revisited at the National Film Theatre next week.
		The Siege of Sidney Street (1960; poster pictured), a surprisingly good, low budget adaptation, gave Peter Wyngarde his first starring role.
		The resemblance to the Pathe footage is most impressive because Sidney Street had been obliterated by the Luftwaffe, and the film was shot in Ardmore Street, Dublin.
	www.saintetienne.com /extramenupages/BOBARTICLE3.htm (628 words)

	Churchill and Secret Service
		Two of its members were traced to a house at Sidney Street in Stepney, who began to fire wildly at the police.
		He termed the Sidney Street gang `a germ cell of murder, anarchy, and revolution...
		Fritz Svaars, one of the Sidney Street dead, was a proven activist, while the man who in fact shot the police at Houndsditch -- and who miraculously escaped imprisonment -- was Jacob Peters.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/stafford-churchill.html (5392 words)

	The Siege of Sidney Street (1960) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A young woman trapped in the middle thinks back to the events that led up to the siege, mainly a failed robbery that results in the death of two of the anarchists.
		The cast are quite good despite the fact that for the first half of the film the Russians are portrayed as thugs and nothing of the cause is explained.
		However once the dip is past the final siege is competently delivered and entertaining.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0054306 (503 words)

	East End history, London history, End End of London, Tower Hamlets, Sidney Street Siege, Peter Lorre, Donald Sinden ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sidney Street Siege was one of the most notorious confrontations in East End criminal history - an affair wrapped in myth and confusion, it prompted the ill-advised intervention of a publicity-hungry Winston Churchill.
		But the 1960 film The Siege of Sidney Street (cranked up a notch for the US as Siege on Hell Street) was much closer to home.
		But the film of police and troops on the East End streets are remarkably similar to photographs of the siege, though by 1960, the producers had to use Dublin locations - No 100 Sidney Street was long gone.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com.cob-web.org:8888 /sidney%20street%20siege.htm (1013 words)

	screenonline: Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch (1912)
		The hero is aided by his fiancée Sybil, who, in an extraordinary cat-fight with Pellie's female accomplice, tries to retrieve the secret despatch.
		Interestingly, the finale, a siege and shoot out by police and the army, is very reminiscent of the
		The film was released only a few months after the actual siege and audiences would no doubt be quick to see the resemblance.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/1114609/index.html (160 words)

	The Sidney Street Siege - Tabletop and Buildings
		The 4 ft x 6 ft (1.2 x 1.8 m.) table at left is designed to run the scenario with 25/28mm figures.
		Thin posterboard (also called railroad board) from the art supply store can be folded into the shape shown for each block in the Sidney Street row of buildings.
		You will want to cut windows out of the brewery building directly across the street and put in a ledge for the police to fire from.
	www.zeitcom.com /majgen/88sidneyst2.html (385 words)

	Forgotten Futures V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Special thanks to Megan C. Robertson for the photograph of the Scots Guards at Sidney Street (part of FF5-AD05.GIF), to all those who have put up with various unworkable versions of this adventure at conventions over several years, and to users of the Usenet alternative history newsgroups and Cix what-if conference for their ideas.
		At 17.45 a badly bungled attack on the defences of Cable Street rallies the anarchists and the dispute is forgotten.
		They describe the Sidney Street incident as a police assault on innocent refugees who "naturally protected themselves against these government assassins"; this naturally glosses over the question of why "innocent refugees" would be equipped with guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
	www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff5/advent5.htm (21204 words)

	[No title]
		Real and Canonical events and characters are introduced, including the Siege of Sidney Street and the spymaster von Bork.
		Fact and fiction are skillfully interwoven, and the author appears to have a good knowledge of the political history and, not least, the railway system of the early 20th century.
		It’s astonishing that no one else seems to have thought of having Holmes investigate the anarchist outrages that culminated in the siege of Sidney Street in 1912.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /malcolm.roberts27/page22.html (308 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Times [London] - 12 October 1936
		Ernest Thompson, who died at Edgware, on Friday, at the age of 63, was Chief Superintendent of the City of London Police when he retired just over a year ago, and was a leading figure in the police investigation which culminated in the siege of Sidney Street.
		The fugitives, even when they knew they were cornered, offered such a desperate resistance with gunfire that armed police, reinforced by soldiers, were ordered to return their fire, and finally the men's charred bodies were found in the ruins of the house which was virtually gutted.
		Thompson was closely associated was the raid on the headquarters of Arcos, Limited, the Russian trade organization in the City, and police officers had the help of men who used pneumatic street drills to break into concrete strong rooms.
	www.casebook.org /press_reports/times/19361012.html (415 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - A Talk with Donald Rumbelow
		DR: What made the Siege so fascinating was that it was in Whitechapel and the police investigators had been young beat policemen at the time of the Ripper murders, so their memoirs frequently refer to both.
		The problem is with the nonprofessional guides who go down streets such as Hanbury Street and stand under the residents’ windows bellowing out details of the mutilations and generally annoying them.
		I don’t go down these streets, show photographs or annoy people, but as the best known of the JTR guides, I frequently have to defend the walks although I am not causing the annoyances.
	www.casebook.org /authors/interviews/int-dr.html (1974 words)

	Alibris: Browse Books by ISBN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1158870109: Siege artillery in the campaigns against Richmond, with notes on the 15-inch gun : including an algebraic analysis of the trajectory of a shot in its ricochets upon smooth water : illustrated by accurate drawings of a large collection of the rifle...
		115888150X: The siege of Charleston, by the British fleet and army under the command of Admiral Arbuthnot and Sir Henry Clinton, which terminated with the surrender of that place on the 12th of May, 1780
		1158901268: The siege of Pensacola, 1781 : a bibliography
	www.alibris.com /books/isbns/18070 (781 words)

	NRA-ILA :: Issues
		Churchill, accompanied by a police inspector and a Scots Guardsman with a hunting gun, strode up to the door of 100 Sidney Street; the inspector kicked the door down.
		The "Siege of Sidney Street" turned out to have been vastly overplayed by both the police and the press.
		While the Siege of Sidney Street did convince New Zealand to tighten its gun laws, the British Parliament rejected new controls.
	www.nraila.org /media/misc/lostrts.html (7679 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: London's East End - East End TV and Film Locations
		One of the most famous events in London's East End was the seige at 100 Sidney Street, Stepney on 3rd January 1911 involving Russian Anarchists and a Bolshevik.
		The film recreation of 'The Siege of Sidney Street' (1960) starred Donald Sinden, Peter Wyngarde, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore, Leonard Sachs and Tutte Lemkow.
		The latest film made in the streets of London's East End is 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels' (1998).
	www.britannia.com /travel/london/cockney/film.html (426 words)

	Sidney Street (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A manhunt then ensued for the gang, one of whom was known as Peter the Painter.
		January 1911 the Metropolitan Police responded to information that the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street, but soon found themselves under gun fire from the premises.
		This was a good example of a large scale armed siege suddenly presenting itself as a previously unknown type of police operation.
	www.historybytheyard.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /sidney_street.htm (325 words)

	A History of the Thriller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first "vigilante justice" thriller, centered on an international cabal which uses terrorist tactics to advance its cause.
		Allegedly based on the Siege of Sidney Street, in which small-time informant Verloc and his anarchist cronies plan an act of terrorism.
		This one-off turns the anarchist fears of the Edwardian age into a religious fantasy.
	www.mysteryguide.com /hist-thriller.html (478 words)

	The Daily Bleed: A Calendar Better Than Boiled Coffee! A People's History: Social, Cultural, Labor, Arts & other events ...
		Efforts were made to tie one of the most prominent members, Errico Malatesta, in with the Houndsditch Murders.
		This was a prelude to "The Siege of Sidney Street" on January 3, 1911.
		On 16 December 1910, a resident of Sidney Street in London's East End heard mysterious hammering noises at a house nearby & notified the Police.
	www.eskimo.com /~recall/bleed/1216.htm (3025 words)

	Great Crimes and Trials: The Siege of Sidney Street - TV Programme - Crime And Investigation Network (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A robbery and the killing of three policemen by anti-Russian anarchists brought Home Secretary Winston Churchill and the Scots Guards onto the streets of London in the search for ‘Peter the Painter’.
		The Old Bailey echoed to cheers as he went to the gallows for treason; his...
		The story of a man who started out as a street thug but soon rose to the top of...
	www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /tv_programme/99/Great_Crimes_and_Trials_The_Siege_of_Sidney_Street.htm (1674 words)

	No Future? Punk 2001, Wolverhampton, September 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As a musical movement, it had its roots in the American 'garage band' tradition, but as a cultural phenomenon1 Punk Rock invoked a wider history.
		The imagery employed by the Sex Pistols in their song-lyrics and in their clothes carries associations with Chartism, the siege of Sidney Street, the Angry Brigade bombings and the Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti.
		Jamie Reid, responsible for the Sex Pistols' distinct graphic style had drawn inspiration from such diverse radical sources as the seventeenth-century Diggers, Charles Fourier, William Morris, and Situationism.
	www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Conferences/01-9-nof.html (359 words)

	About After the Battle
		Our lives are shaped by many events and experiences, particularly during our 'formative' years and two things stick out in my memory.
		The first was that while I was still at school I wanted to visit the scene of the Siege of Sidney Street (in Whitechapel in East London) to see what No. 100 looked like.
		Then, the house was still standing but I remember being disappointed not to find it covered with bullet holes.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /gaz/atbintro.html (2148 words)

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		When the result was declared, Churchill was left, as he wryly observed, without a seat, without a party and without an appendix.
		The family is reassured by Leone that he will sign pardon, but he buckles under Andreotti.
		May 9, while Fanfani argues the case against a hard line stance, news arrives that Moro has been found dead in a car in a street midway between the headquarters of the Christian Democrats and the Communists.
	www.edsh.org /diskutime/viewthread.php?tid=60 (10901 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Siege of Sidney Street : Details
		VH1.com : Movies : The Siege of Sidney Street : Details
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	Hexapedia - Siege of Sidney Street (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Siege of Sidney Street, popularly known as the "Battle of Stepney", was a gunfight in London's East End in 1911.
		On January 1, 1911, an informant told police that two or three of the gang, possibly including Peter the Painter himself, were hiding at 100 Sidney Street.
		On film The events were depicted in a movie, The Siege of Sidney Street, in 1960.
	www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Sidney_Street_siege (574 words)

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