Printed Ephemera — 1909-02-18
Police cordon at Downing street
Police cordon at Downing street, Thursday 18th February 1909. The Police seen in the image were preparing to prevent a delegation from the Women's Freedom League entering Downing Street. The cordon was one of several mounted in Whitehall on the morning of Thursday 18th February 1909 to prevent members of the WFL from attempting to present the case of female Suffrage to the Prime Minister in person. Both mounted and unmounted police cordons blocked the procesion of women as they attempted to enter Whitehall from Victoria Street following an early morning meeting at Caxton Hall. Refusing to move on after an order from the police, 21 women were arrested. This image also appeared in Votes for Women on February 26th 1909.
The date handwritten on the front of the photograph is, therefore, incorrect.
- Category:
- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 50.82/1763
- Object name:
- Police cordon at Downing street
- Object type:
- photograph
- Artist/Maker:
- Illustrations Bureau
- Related people:
- Women's Social and Political Union, Metropolitan Police
- Related events:
- Suffragette Campaign 1903-1918
- Related places:
- —
- Production date:
- 1909-02-18
- Material:
- paper
- Measurements/duration:
- H 112 mm, W 157 mm (overall)
- Part of:
- —
- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Credit:
- —
- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
- Image credit:
- —
- Creative commons usage:
- —
- License this image:
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