100 years ago today

[Godot]

The siege of Sidney Street

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[Cabe]

NM, its a 2 part video.

 

[Godot]

Read/watch on dear fellow
Siege of Sidney Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[tali]

The current location of 100 Sidney st appears to be a block of flats called Wexford House.

Confusingly the road also has a block of flats called Siege House
Afaik this area later became the Krays heartland and now is home to the largest Bengali community in UK

 

[MOCAŠ]

Looks like the street has been renumbered since the time of the siege, but judging by the video footage, it would have been the house with the brown door in the following link. There is also evidence of smoke marks above the first floor, although this could of course be the a legacy of some subsequent incident.

Sidney Street, Poplar - Google Maps

 

[MOCAŠ]

On further inspection, the video footage was simply making use of some similar surviving houses further down the street as a backdrop for the report; the orginal location (along with Hawkins St) has indeed been replaced by Wexford House. Siege House is right at the other end of Sidney St (near the junction with Commercial Road), and was presumably named solely to commemorate the event.

Here's a schematic of the event:

 

[tali]

I'm puzzled as to why location was called Wexford and opposite was named Seige - odd considering they are both modern built buildings