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2 Lads, Can You Identify?

2 Lads, Can You Identify?
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 10,297    Year: 1930     1 Comment

Family Outing

Family Outing
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 8,481    Year: 1930

Unknown Children

Unknown Children
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 9,195    Year: 1930

A Boy and His Dog

A Boy and His Dog
Family Album - Unknown

Found in an old album containing many photos. I will return the album to the family if the powers of the internet can help!

Views: 9,584    Year: 1930     1 Comment

The General Strike, 1926

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: 12,492    Year: 1926     1 Comment

The General Strike, 1926

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: 11,489    Year: 1926

The New Britain Is Not Yet

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: 28,933    Year: 1921     5 Comments

Railway Strike, 1919

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: 12,163    Year: 1919

Railway Strike, 1919

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

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

Views: 12,054    Year: 1919

Railway Strike, 1919

Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes

A food convoy in Hyde Park during the railway strike.

Views: 11,601    Year: 1919

Suffragettes' Campaign

Suffragettes' Campaign
Society & Culture - Protests

Demonstration were held almost daily by women claiming equal rights with men. When arrested for breaking the law, many of them went on hunger strike.

Views: 10,699    Year: 1912

Suffragettes' Campaign

Suffragettes' Campaign
Society & Culture - Protests

Demonstration were held almost daily by women claiming equal rights with men. When arrested for breaking the law, many of them went on hunger strike.

Views: 10,380    Year: 1912

Coal Picking

Coal Picking
Work - Strikes

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

Views: 13,067    Year: 1912     2 Comments

The famous siege of Sidney Street, Jan 1911

The famous siege of Sidney Street, Jan 1911
Society & Culture - Crime

Gunmen, resisting arrest, had barricaded themselves in 100, Sidney Street, and opened fire at the police. A detachment of Scots Guards and several hundred armed police were called out to capture them. Mr. Winston Churchill, the Home Secretary, seen in the photograph directed operations.

Views: 10,292    Year: 1911

The famous siege of Sidney Street, Jan 1911

The famous siege of Sidney Street, Jan 1911
Society & Culture - Crime

100 Sidney Street after the siege. The two gunmen were killed and several policemen were wounded. The ringleader of the gang, Peter the Painter, is believed to have escaped.

Views: 10,229    Year: 1911

Omnibus

Omnibus
Transport - Road

Pre-war London omnibus which would rattle along at a few miles per hour.

Views: 10,742    Year: 1910

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 24,003    Year: 1900     7 Comments

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 12,070    Year: 1900

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 12,613    Year: 1900     1 Comment

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 13,675    Year: 1900     1 Comment

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 13,670    Year: 1900     1 Comment

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 14,393    Year: 1900     1 Comment

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 12,283    Year: 1900     1 Comment

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 11,842    Year: 1900

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.

Hick Hargreaves & Co. Ltd.
Work - Engineering

Benjamin Hick, mechanical engineer and William Hargreaves firm "Hick, Hargeaves & Co." was based at the Soho Foundry in Bolton, Lancashire.

Views: 11,991    Year: 1900