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10 Downing Street steps

Published in Issue 3 (May/June 2016), Letters, Volume 24

Sir,—In disputing the attribution of a photograph of the New Zealand prime minister ‘outside 10 Downing Street’ (HI 23.6, Nov./Dec. 2015, p. 35), W. Peter Dunne claims to be familiar with the building and states that ‘there are no steps, nor were there ever any’ at the building. While the picture may, as you suggest, have been taken at the back of the building, please note that there are two steps at the front of the building and always have been.—Yours etc.,

KEVIN O’SULLIVAN
Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

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1968 In what became known as the ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Enoch Powell MP strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK, and the then proposed Race Relations Act.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Groody, Limerick city, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland. The last judicial execution in Northern Ireland took place seven years later, in December 1961, when Robert McGladdery (26) from Newry was hanged for the murder of a local woman.
1912 Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker (65), author, notably of Dracula (1897), died.
1954 Michael Manning (25), a carter from Limerick, was hanged in Mountjoy prison for the murder of an elderly nurse. He was the last man to be judicially executed in the Republic of Ireland.

10 Downing Street steps

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