CHURCHILL, Winston S. Photograph signed (along lower margin of image, 'Winston S. Churchill'), [1946], a black and white image of Churchill at the Sidney Street Siege in 1911, by Central Press Photos Ltd (their stamp on verso), 135 x 178mm, paper caption at lower margin. Provenance : J.R. Harvey (accompanying letter from Churchill's secretary Edward D.H. Odd, 25 October 1946, 'Mr. Churchill has pleasure in returning your photo duly signed'); Sotheby's, 11 July 1986, lot 317.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Photograph signed (along lower margin of image, 'Winston S. Churchill'), [1946], a black and white image of Churchill at the Sidney Street Siege in 1911, by Central Press Photos Ltd (their stamp on verso), 135 x 178mm, paper caption at lower margin. Provenance : J.R. Harvey (accompanying letter from Churchill's secretary Edward D.H. Odd, 25 October 1946, 'Mr. Churchill has pleasure in returning your photo duly signed'); Sotheby's, 11 July 1986, lot 317. 'WHAT WAS THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN DOING?' CHURCHILL AT THE SIDNEY STREET SIEGE peeks around a corner during the deadly gun battle with a group of Russian anarchists on 3 January 1911. The group had been hiding out at number 100 Sidney Street in the East End since 16 December, when police came upon them trying to rob a jeweller's. They escaped, killing three officers, but informers tipped off the authorities as to their hideout on Sidney Street and the block was soon surrounded by 200 policemen. The Russians were heavily armed and reinforcements were summoned from the Tower of London and the Home Office, including the Home Secretary himself -- Churchill, as ever incapable of staying away from scenes of action and danger. A newspaper photographer captured his presence on the scene, in top hat and fur-collared coat. When heavy firing set the house ablaze Churchill agreed to the commanding police officer's request to let the house burn. One additional officer died during the siege, and two charred corpses were recovered from the house. Other members of the gang presumably escaped. When this photo of Churchill appeared in the newspapers, critics denounced him for recklessness and glory-seeking. His former Tory colleague Arthur Balfour launched a famous put-down during the House of Commons debate on the affair: 'I understand what the photographer was doing, but what was the right honourable gentleman doing?'
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Photograph signed (along lower margin of image, 'Winston S. Churchill'), [1946], a black and white image of Churchill at the Sidney Street Siege in 1911, by Central Press Photos Ltd (their stamp on verso), 135 x 178mm, paper caption at lower margin. Provenance : J.R. Harvey (accompanying letter from Churchill's secretary Edward D.H. Odd, 25 October 1946, 'Mr. Churchill has pleasure in returning your photo duly signed'); Sotheby's, 11 July 1986, lot 317.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Photograph signed (along lower margin of image, 'Winston S. Churchill'), [1946], a black and white image of Churchill at the Sidney Street Siege in 1911, by Central Press Photos Ltd (their stamp on verso), 135 x 178mm, paper caption at lower margin. Provenance : J.R. Harvey (accompanying letter from Churchill's secretary Edward D.H. Odd, 25 October 1946, 'Mr. Churchill has pleasure in returning your photo duly signed'); Sotheby's, 11 July 1986, lot 317. 'WHAT WAS THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN DOING?' CHURCHILL AT THE SIDNEY STREET SIEGE peeks around a corner during the deadly gun battle with a group of Russian anarchists on 3 January 1911. The group had been hiding out at number 100 Sidney Street in the East End since 16 December, when police came upon them trying to rob a jeweller's. They escaped, killing three officers, but informers tipped off the authorities as to their hideout on Sidney Street and the block was soon surrounded by 200 policemen. The Russians were heavily armed and reinforcements were summoned from the Tower of London and the Home Office, including the Home Secretary himself -- Churchill, as ever incapable of staying away from scenes of action and danger. A newspaper photographer captured his presence on the scene, in top hat and fur-collared coat. When heavy firing set the house ablaze Churchill agreed to the commanding police officer's request to let the house burn. One additional officer died during the siege, and two charred corpses were recovered from the house. Other members of the gang presumably escaped. When this photo of Churchill appeared in the newspapers, critics denounced him for recklessness and glory-seeking. His former Tory colleague Arthur Balfour launched a famous put-down during the House of Commons debate on the affair: 'I understand what the photographer was doing, but what was the right honourable gentleman doing?'
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