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The siege is tomorrow? Better warn the police ...

One of the blocks in the council estate is called Siege House. It looks like the kind of place where one would be held. http://homes.trovit.co.uk/siege-house-sidney-street-e1

If you look closely in the dying seconds of the newsreel, the crowd scenes, you can see bystanders waving at the camera. The original "hello mum" moment?

Good fictional re-creation of the siege in Emanuel Litvinoff's A Death Out of Season. Might be difficult to find.

OK, so now you changed it my comment looks weird ha ha.

Could you imagine bystanders being allowed to loiter so close to the action, or people leaning out of windows next to buildings under seige/on fire etc, today!

Now this is very local history indeed, seeing as I spent a chunk of my childhood living on Sidney St and attending the nearby school, so I certainly intend to pop along to the exhibition some time... In fact both schools I went to as a child are on famous East End streets (Sidney and Cable).

Just this minute finished watching Pool of London "The story of the River Underworld" and been trying to see if I can see locations on steeetview!











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