View of the Smugglers' Retreat on Hythe High Street, from the south-west

Date:: 1905

Location:: Smugglers' Retreat, High Street, Hythe, Shepway, Kent

Reference:: OP25267

Type:: Photograph (Postcard - Photographic)

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Description

This is a Christmas greetings postcard. A newspaper billboard has headlines on 'Tsar Justifies Massacre' and Mr Chamberlain's tax plans, suggesting a date of 1905, after 'Bloody Sunday' of 22nd January 1905, when Austen Chamberlain was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK.

Archival History

This photograph was withdrawn from the open Red Box Collection for conservation reasons during the 2011-12 Red Box Project.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/23 Early Photographic Print Collection: Kent; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Hanoverian Shop