Siege of Sidney Street
The Siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries.
The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants which resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang.
An investigation by the Metropolitan and City of London Police forces identified Gardstein's accomplices, most of whom were arrested within two weeks.
The police were informed that the last two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney.
The police evacuated local residents from the environs, and on the morning of 3 January a firefight broke out.
Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army.
The siege lasted for about six hours.
Towards the end of the stand- off, the building caught fire; no single cause has been identified.
One of the agitators in the building was shot before the fire spread.
While the London Fire Brigade were damping down the ruins—in which they found the two bodies — the building collapsed, killing a fireman, Superintendent Charles Pearson.
The siege marked the first time the police had requested military assistance in London to deal with an armed stand- off.
It was also the first siege in Britain to be caught on camera, as the events were filmed by Pathé News.
Some of the footage included images of the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
His presence caused a political row over the level of his operational involvement.
At the trial in May 1911 of those arrested for the Houndsditch jewellery robbery, all but one of the accused were acquitted; the conviction was overturned on appeal.
The events were fictionalised in film—in" The Man Who Knew Too Much"( 1934) and" The Siege of Sidney Street"( 1960) —and novels.
On the centenary of the events two tower blocks in Sidney Street were named after
Peter the Painter, one of the minor members of the gang who was probably not present at either Houndsditch or Sidney Street.
The murdered policemen and the fireman who died are commemorated with memorial plaques.
The Siege of Sidney Street
The Siege of Sidney Street is a 1960 British historical drama film co-directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman.
It stars Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger and Kieron Moore.
The film dramatises the 1909 Tottenham Outrage- a bungled wages- snatch which resulted in the murder of a police officer and a ten- year- old bystander as well as the two armed robbers- and the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, in which armed police surrounded a house in East End of London occupied by a gang who had killed three police officers during a bungled attempt to break into a jeweller's shop.
The film depicts the two events as both taking place in 1911, the work of the same gang.
It was filmed at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, with shots of Dublin standing in for pre-First World War East London.
Sidney Street
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James Jarché
James 'Jimmy' Jarché (8 September 1890 – 6 August 1965) was a Fleet Street photographer notable for the first pictures of Edward VIII and the then-unidentified Wallis Simpson and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot (1909) and the Siege of Sidney Street.
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Wives and Other Wives
Wives and Other Wives is a lost 1918 American silent comedy- drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham based on a story by Jules Furthman.
The film stars Mary Miles Minter and Colin Chase in the lead roles.
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Question: Which film has more directors, The Siege Of Sidney Street or Wives And Other Wives?
Answer: The Siege Of Sidney Street