This tour is free with a suggested donation to help support the Abney Park Trust. Please consider donating £5.00 to help the Trust continue its important work.

On 23rd January 1909, Latvian revolutionaries attempted to steal the payroll wages of factory workers in Tottenham. This resulted in a wild chase across the Hackney Marshes involving hundreds of people and ended with four deaths.

Led by Alan Gartrell, this tour will tell the story of an extraordinary event. The aftermath, which produced one of Abney's finest memorials, also spirals out to involve Joseph Conrad, Josef Stalin, Alfred Hitchcock, Arthur Ransome, Winston Churchill and James Bond.

About the speaker:

Alan Gartrell has given tours of Abney Park for many years now. His topics cover a huge range from the history of Hackney's MPs to Abney Park's missionary links. He very modestly says he is not a historian, just a few clicks ahead of everyone else on Wikipedia.