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Oct 13

East Wall History Festival 2013

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  The East Wall History Festival 2013 will launch this Sunday, 13th October and continue until Saturday 26th October. See brochure for full details of all events. This year we have some exclusive material to screen and display. We are delighted to have received permission to screen two Radharc episodes that feature scenes from the …

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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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Sep 04

1913 LOCKOUT -East Wall Commemoration

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