Daily Archive: September 9, 2013

Sep 09

1913 Lockout Merchants Road Evictions Images may fade, but our memories should not

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During the 1913 Lockout over sixty East Wall families were evicted by the Merchants Warehousing Company. The photograph above is a particularly haunting image, showing an evicted family carrying their possessions along Merchants Road. The other two photographs, while not as poignant, also illustrate the events of that day. The first shows bailiffs gathered at …

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