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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Work - Strikes
The clerical staff at Euston Station became porters and unloaded trains carrying food.
Views: 12,054 Year: 1919
Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes
A food convoy in Hyde Park during the railway strike.
Views: 11,601 Year: 1919
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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