Policemen everywhere! Date and touch up please

[chinakay]

Here's another, with a good shot of a very tall omnibus and another with a lovely fire engine.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=84933

[Paul Caswell]

Very interesting!

Your links didn't work for me but this should for others if you share my problem.

http://www.britishpathe.com/results.php?search=siege+of+Sidney+St

Paul

Added: They work fine now ... what an interesting resource.

[chinakay]

Well, wonder what went wrong...I have corrected the links...

[justmej]

Hey, there was a Parker & Co in Bishopsgate, Houndsditch!
Forgot the link...it's 1966, but a family business could easily have been there for several decades.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1966/1966%20-%201172.html

Oooh very interesting China!
Oddly enough I had just put the same link for the Pathé News in the Common Room a few days ago too!!!   Will have another look at it, as at the time I was more excited that I might of discovered my gg uncle in the clip!

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,427087.0.html

[justmej]

Here's another, with a good shot of a very tall omnibus and another with a lovely fire engine.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=84933

Saw them this time . 

Of course, going back to the original picture, the police officers do not appear to be City of London Police (different helmet badge) but of course the City Police were not the only officers involved at the time of the siege in 1911, so still a possibility... especially as China has found a Parker & Co in Bishopsgate!

justmej

[chinakay]

Came across this photo too, but I'm not sure if it's a real street scene or a scene from the film in 1960...

[justmej]

Came across this photo too, but I'm not sure if it's a real street scene or a scene from the film in 1960...

Not sure China, although the one on the right has a look of Ricky from Eastenders

[TomFE]

Notice how many people on the left are staring at, I think, the camera. As if it's a novelty to them?

[justmej]

Spooky! ... today is the anniversary of the Sidney Street siege... 3rd January 1911

Back to the original picture, could the hazy 'somethings' either side of the possible omnibus, be carrying flowers too?

TomFE, I imagine you are referring to the original pic and not the street scene posted by chinakay?  If so, I see what you mean, although it could be that they are simply walking in the same direction as the procession and have caught sight of the camera... and then again, it could have been a novelty to some, to suddenly discover a camera pointed in their direction.

justmej