The Tottenham Outrage

[Steve S]

The 10 year old boy killed in the Tottenham Outrage was my wife's great uncle. I walked the route a couple of years ago and took a few photos.
There are a couple of decent little booklets about the Outrage, although they might be hard to find: -
OUTRAGE! AN EDWARDIAN TRAGEDY by J D Harris
SECRETS OF THE TOTTENHAM OUTRAGE by Patricie Collier

Buried in Abney Park?.....Or am I getting mixed up...?
Steve

[David Knott]

Correct Steve. There was a joint funeral for Ralph Joscelyne and PC Tyler.

David

[Limehouse]

The 10 year old boy killed in the Tottenham Outrage was my wife's great uncle. I walked the route a couple of years ago and took a few photos.
There are a couple of decent little booklets about the Outrage, although they might be hard to find: -
OUTRAGE! AN EDWARDIAN TRAGEDY by J D Harris
SECRETS OF THE TOTTENHAM OUTRAGE by Patricie Collier

Thank you for this David. I don't know whether anything has been arranged to mark the centenary of this event. Unfortunately, I now live almost 100 miles from where I grew up, close to the place where the siege ended. I don't think I'll be able to get to London until later in the year, perhaps the summer.

If anyone wants to meet up then, I'd be happy to visit any part of (or the whole!) route with them.

[Steve S]

Thank you for this David. I don't know whether anything has been arranged to mark the centenary of this event. Unfortunately, I now live almost 100 miles from where I grew up, close to the place where the siege ended. I don't think I'll be able to get to London until later in the year, perhaps the summer.

If anyone wants to meet up then, I'd be happy to visit any part of (or the whole!) route with them.

That may give me an excuse for a day-trip...As I'm now 100 miles at a slightly different heading!
Steve

[Limehouse]

Remembered - 100 years ago today

Here is a link to the story on BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7844916.stm

[Pinkerton]

On 23 January, 1909, two Bolshevik anarchists...

"Bolshevik anarchists"? Isn't that sort of like a fascist liberatarian?

[Rob Clack]

Just got this of eBay. Taken about 1940 I think.



Rob

[Limehouse]

Yes Rob, that's the cottage, in Oak Hill, just round the corner from the Royal Oak pub. The pub is still there but the cottage was demolished some years ago - in the 1970s I think. We used to pass this spot on the way to meet friends who lived a short distance away. We also frequently walked through the pathway under the railway arch where the other anarchist shot himself. (about half a mile from the cottage) Both of these locations at the end of the anarchist trail are on the Highams Park/Woodford Green border - some miles from Tottenham.

Thanks for posting the picture. Next time I go down to visit relatives, I'll take some photos of the locations as they look today.

[Rob Clack]

Thanks Limehouse, shame the cottage was demolished as it's a nice little building. I keep meaning to pop up to Tottenham myself to have a look at the rubber factory. I understand the original Police Station had been rebuilt (same site I think) and nothing remains of the original.

Rob

[Steve S]

That's a pity...I'm sure the Police Station as I remember it from the 60's-70's was still basically the same....even to the stables in the yard!...Sure my Gran remembered the funerals...
Steve

[Rob Clack]

Hi Steve,

The present building dates from 1914. I don't know for certain but I believe it completely replaced the earlier building. I could be wrong though.

Rob

[Steve S]

Not sure...I thought the main block was rebuilt,but the out-buildings were earlier......
Steve

[Pablito]

Tottenham outrage

I actually did a tour of the Tottenham outrage with my schoolfriends about 15 - 16 years ago, there was a scratched cross on the wall where the policeman was shot and it is still there. I now regularly go on bike rides through Walthamstow Marshes, the bridge is still there.

Didn't Winston Churchill become involved as I think he was Home Secretary at the time? Yes, I think he personally turned up outside the house they were hiding in whilst they were firing at the police and a really good photograph is floating around somewhere of Winnie and the rozzers dodging bullets!

[Pablito]

where did you get that joke, Graham? Was his a popular joke - poem at the time? i only ask coz i grew up in Haringey, although in the eighties and nineties?

[Pablito]

There was a young lady of Tottenham,
Who'd no manners, or else had fogotten 'em.
At tea at the vicar's
She took down her knickers
Because, she said, she felt 'ot in 'em.

Ahem.

Graham

Hi Graham, where did you get this joke - poem from?!