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A London branch of the Aerated Bread Company, its windows smashed by Suffragettes, March 1912. This shop was attacked during the mass window smashing campaign carried out by the Women's Social and Political Union on 1st March 1912 when up to 300 Suffragettes armed with hammers and stones and instructions as to their use and timing, broke shop and office windows in the West End of London. Following this attack on the windows of 270 premises the Police discovered that 24 toffee hammers had been purchased in February from a shop in Fetter Lane by a 'well set up intellectual lady'. Around 220 arrests were made on March 1st and more on subsequent days.