Title

'Mafeking Relieved', 1900, (1933). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Mafeking Relieved', 1900, (1933). Patriotic crowds celebrate outside the London home of British colonel Robert Baden-Powell after his part in the relief of the British-held town in South Africa, besieged by the Boers for 217 days from October 1899 until May 1900. Union jack flags decorate the building: '...the defender's house, gay with banners and blazoned with his magic initials - by which he was always known - was the scene of vociferous cheering by the seething crowds'. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]

Date

1933

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F35_202

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,1Mb (3,9Mb) / 15,4in x 16,2in / 4620 x 4851 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building buildings London England people male crowds man men house houses flag flags patriotism guy British celebrations celebration cheering celebrating war Victorian century banner banners patriotic Britain Union Jack thirties concept INITIALS United Kingdom standard british flag Union flag B W 1930s 1900s 20th century siege The Print Collector Boer Wars Siege of Mafeking TGN outside photograph Unknown White Robert Robert Baden-Powell Baden-Powell (of Gilwell) Sir Robert Baden-Powell Baden-Powell Powell 1899-1902 2nd Boer war Second Boer War Odhams Press Ltd 1st Baronet Second Transvaal War Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Henry E White Henry E Henry E.White Henry E. Relief of Mafeking