TitlePhotograph - Balcombe Street siege, 1975
ReferenceIMG/ORG/LEVELLER/0293
Date
7 Dec 1975
Production date 1975-12-07 - 1975-12-07
Scope and ContentBlack and white photograph of armed police officers during the siege of 22b Balcombe Street, Marylebone, where four suspected IRA bombers were holding John and Sheila Matthews hostage. There are five police officers standing on the steps and at least three of them are holding a gun
Extent1 photograph
Physical descriptionDimensions (WxH): 20.2cm x 25.2cm
Persons keywordLeveller Magazine, Irish Republican Army, Matthews, John, Matthews, Sheila, O'Connell, Joe, Doherty, Hugh, Butler, Edward, Duggan, Harry
SubjectAnglo-Irish disputes, Terrorism, Police service
Conditions governing accessOpen
Conditions governing reproductionCopyright: Popperfoto, Paul Popper Ltd, London
Levelfile
Normal locationZ Leveller photographs Box 3 (Room 24)