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Description: | This gun had been captured during the Crimean War (1853-1856) and presented to the city, where it was placed in the Broadway.
Gun Riot: In the months before the Pageant, the Mayor, Alderman W H Forder, wished the city to be tidied up and proposed removing the railings around the gun, the triangular site re-gravelled and the gun and carriage itself re-painted. However there were many who felt that removing the railings would mean it would become a 'nuisance' with children. A public meeting was held, which developed into a riot with stone throwing, windows broken, and the throwing of a 'chariot' to be used in the forthcoming Pageant, into the river from the City Bridge. The rioters used ropes to pull the gun from its carriage. The riot was led by Joe Dumper.
The gun was re-mounted on its carriage and the railings were replaced after the riot.
Reference:
Winchester Scrapbook, V, p.46. Report from the Hampshire Chronicle, 30th May, 1908, p.11.
Copy photograph made by Derek Dine, 1970-80. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | riot Joe Dumper civil disturbance gun | Temporal: | start=1908-01-01; end=1908-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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