Work

The General Strike, 1926
Work - Strikes

Buses and trams were run with volunteer drivers and conductors. Many young undergraduates enjoyed themselves at this work. The strikers showed admirable self-control at these efforts to defeat them, and there were only a few ugly incidents.

Views: 11,782    Year: 1926     1 Comment

The General Strike, 1926
Work - Strikes

Buses and trams were run with volunteer drivers and conductors. Many young undergraduates enjoyed themselves at this work. The strikers showed admirable self-control at these efforts to defeat them, and there were only a few ugly incidents.

Views: 10,761    Year: 1926

The New Britain Is Not Yet
Work - Strikes

Market Place, Wigan - It is peace - but the new Britain that was to come with peace has not yet been born. Industrial troubles culminate in the great coal strike of April, 1921.

Views: 28,147    Year: 1921     5 Comments

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

Railway transport was paralysed for nine days in September and October by a strike. Eventually the Government intervened, and secured a settlement. Photo shows a non-striking porter having a few moments' rest.

Views: 11,487    Year: 1919

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

The clerical staff at Euston Station became porters and unloaded trains carrying food.

Views: 11,369    Year: 1919

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

A food convoy in Hyde Park during the railway strike.

Views: 10,947    Year: 1919

Coal Picking
Work - Strikes

Coal picking during the strike, 1912, at the Pretoria Pit, Atherton.

Views: 12,365    Year: 1912     2 Comments

Soup Kitchen
Work - Strikes

Revd. William Wickham serving at a makeshift 'Soup Kitchen' in Wigan during the miners' strike of 1893.

Views: 13,020    Year: 1893