Catalogue Number
NMLH.2016.13.10
Object Name
Card
Title
Ode To The Specials
Place
Trafalgar Square
People
Angus Thomas
Llewellyn T. Smith
Events
Bloody Sunday - Trafalgar Square 13 Novemeber 1887
Description
Copy of front of Christmas Card - Ode To The Specials by Angus Thomas:
In Trafalgar Bay where the Frenchmen lay,
A Hero was Nelson there!
But nothing was he tho' King of the Sea,
To the Kings of Trafalgar Square!
With Jack on the watch and with battened hatch,
There France in its pride was quashed,
Washed in the wave where they found a grave_
But they baton'd "The Great Unwashed"!
Then surely the fame of Nelsom's name
The "Specials" have right to share:
"He won the day in Trafalgar Bay,
But They (?) in Trafalgar Square!"
This is concerned with "...the massive demonstration in Trafalgar Square on 13 November 1887 which came to be known as 'Bloody Sunday'." - Information from page 13 - 15 'Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife - A History of Protest Christmas Cards' by Llew and Pam Smith.
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