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Gorrie Guarded by Police on way home (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • Art Siegel said:
    probably the strikebreaker in this story: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E4D81439E333A...
  • Dave Conner said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
  • Dave Conner said:
    Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)
  • McBomb said:
    STRIKE MOB PELTS WORKMAN AND POLICE; 3,000 Join in Attacking a Factory Employe Who Wouldn't Quit and His Escort. May 10, 1911, Wednesday A mob of 3,000 persons, among them many women, hooted and jeered early yesterday evening as eight mounted policemen, eight men on foot, and two bicycle policemen escorted Harry Gorrie to his home at 511 Fifty-third Street, Brooklyn, from the E.W. Bliss Projectile Works, at Fifty-third Street and First Avenue. -NY Times archives you can use the link posted above to get to the full story.
  • Dave Conner said:
    That was really sweet of them - to give out the man's full address.

The hunt for the Governor gang of bushrangers. A posse of mounted police, aboriginal trackers and district volunteers. Jimmy & Joe Governor were sighted at Stewarts Brook on 12 September 1900 - Stewarts Brook, NSW / by A C Jackson

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Ian Sanderson said:
    The hunt for Jimmy Governor was fictionalised by Tom Kenneally in "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith". The Story
  • Dave Conner said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Julie Pike said:
    I ran across this and a few other photos while doing research on my Great Grandfather A C Jackson. It's the only information I have on this long lost relative. If anyone knows about this family I'd love to find out about them. Two of A C's children were photographers as well. jpike11@gmail.com
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    Dear crazycatlady8, your local library can put you intouch with family history research centres and groups. The State Library of New Sooth Wales has a Family History research centre.
  • Mich said:
    One of those guys might be George William New

London Strike. Police escort for one van. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Steven Pemberton said:
    Since other photos in this series are dated 1926, this is probably the General Strike, and not the date given above.
  • Dave Conner said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
  • Dave Conner said:
    Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)
  • Paul Jackson said:
    Lilley and Skinner still make and sell shoes. Lilley and Skinner used to be cockney rhyming slang for "dinner". This is probably taken in the City of London too
  • truthful breath said:
    It could be Houndsditch