Strike Collection (page 6)

Recuiting volunteers for bus-driving 1926
Temporary recruiting office in Regents Street, London, for the L.G.O.C (London General Omnibus Company), volunteers queuing outside. May 1926

General Strike 1926: Society women volunteers
In support of the General Strike ladies from society helped, photograph showing volunteers working in Hyde Park, London, in the open air peeling potatoes, Lady Quilter (with tray)

Incidents including train-wrecking: General Strike 1926
Several scenes in England including: Liverpool Street Station crowds of commuters trying to get to work. Vandalism in Northumberland where fish-plates and bolts had been removed from the rails

On strike: the colliers family at home, 1912
On strike: the colliers family at home in South Wales. A study from life by Fortunino Matania. The national strike ended after 37 days, with the introduction of the minimum wage act. 1912

Cardiff Strike - Policemen - Tonypandy Riots
Cardiff Strike - London Policeman brought in to aid management of rioting miners. The Tonypandy Riots, sometimes known as the Rhondda Riots

Richard I at the Siege of Acre by Matania
Richard I at the Siege of Acre on horseback jumps over a horse swinging his axe through the air about to strike two men. Date: 1191

Workers strike in Jumet (Belgium) on 26 March 1886. Strikers destroying an smelter in the H. Bandoux glass factory. Engraving

Miners racing whippets, Illustrated London News front cover
Front cover of the Illustrated London News showing coal miners, on strike, partaking in one of their favourite pastimes, whippet racing

Miners Strike, Wales
South Wales miners families pawning their possessions during lock-out, at Merthyr Tydfil. Date: 1875

Liverpool General transport Strike 1911
Most of the summer of 1911, dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well as people from other trades went on strike, paralysing Liverpools commerce. Transforming trade unionism and Merseyside

Railway strike 1911: Paddington Station
Several days of the week London lived under the shadow of the seige conditions, deserted rails with crowned platforms at Paddington Station, during the Great Railway Strike. August 1911

First National Firemens Strike, 1977
The first ever National Firemens Strike in 1977 was supported by Firemen from Eccles Fire Station, Manchester. Date: 1977

Football Action. Ayresome Park Middlesbrough. March 1973 1973

Aichi D3A1 Navy Type 99 Dive bomber Val flown off carriers was employed with impressive effect in Pearl Harbor strike

Suffragette Grace Roe Arrest 1914. Grace Watney Rose (1885-1979) was arrested in May 1914 when police raided the W.S.P.Us headquarters Lincolns Inn House

WWI Other Ranks badge - London Scottish Regiment
First World War Other Ranks badge belonging to the London Scottish Regiment, embossed with the Battle Honour - S. Africa 1900-02 and the motto Strike Sure. This has been made into a brooch

The Mailed Fist strikes at last, WW1
The mailed fist strikes at last. The German Empires challenge and the British Empires answer on the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

Coal strike of 1912
National coal strike of 1912. Workers went on strike from February to early April, to secure a minimum wage. 1912

The General Strike - Guards return from duty 1926
Londoners watching a procession of The 1st Brigade of Guards, with massed bands, marching through the City past the Royal Exchange and Mansion House

Suffolk - Southwold Jack - St Edmunds Church
St Edmunds Church, Southwold, Suffolk - the 15th century clock jack, which stands at the west end. He holds an axe and bell which he uses to strike the time

North American AJ-1 Savage carrier-borne strike aircraft with wings folded

France (19th c. ). Workers movement. Strike of
France (19th c.). Workers movement. Strike of miners in Pas-de-Calais. The strikerss demonstration on the streets of the city. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Wrecked train, Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales
A troop train in Llanelli, Wales, wrecked by rioters during the railway strike, during which nine people were killed. What started out as a peaceful strike by railway workers in Llanelli turned

Debris following Llanelli railway strike riots, Wales
Newspapers strewn over the railway lines, with a train in the background wrecked by rioters during the railway strike, during which nine people were killed

Match Makers
The Match Makers of the East End. The match-making industry employed mainly female workers and came to prominence in 1888 during the match-making strike when, led by Annie Besant

Rail Strike / Crowded Tram
RAIL STRIKE An overcrowded tram on the Thames Embankment, packed with Londoners struggling to get home on a day with no trains or tubes running

Tarot Card 16 - La Maison Dieu (The Tower)

Strikers return: General Strike 1926
Employer: " Glad to see you back, my lad; but you ll understand that in the circumstances we can t run to a fatted calf!" May 1916

Armoured convoy of food supplies: General strike 1926
General strike in 1926 called for emergency measures, armoured vehicles and troops in a convoy through the streetscarrying much need food. Date: May 1926

Breakaway from coal strike 1926
After more than a week on general strike, there was a strong movement that began with the coal-miners of the Midlands to break-away from the strike abd return to work

Coal strike: movements towards an offical settlement 1926
Fillings in many of collieries was that the Genaral strike was coming to the end; a flow of men returning back to work steadily increased

London takes to the roads, General Strike 1926
Photographs showing Londoners finding all sorts of ways to commute to and from work during the 1926 general strike in Britain. May 1926

Railway volunteers at work 1926
Volunteers ensuring the safty of passagers on a main line train track, another volunteer adjusting points. May 1926

2nd Bn en route from the docks during the General Strike
Photograph of the 2nd Bn en route from the docks during the General Strike, May 1926.Photograph associated with Regimental Command

Steps of Liberty Hall, Dublin, tramways strike 1913
Tramwaymen strikers cheering outside Liberty Hall, Dublin, the headquarters of the Transport Workers Union, 1913. 1913

Strike by Belgian Glassmakers and Cutters - Manage
A strike by Belgian Glassmakers and Engravers / Cutters from the Glassworks at Manage, Hainaut, Belgium - the board notice on the building behind them demands an end to having to work throughout

Fashion respond to emergency calls during the General Strike, with practical suggestions, 1926 Date: 1926

A scene of a London street during the General Strike, 1926 Date: 1926

Alfs Button, a play by W A Darlington, a version of the Aladdin story. First produced Portsmouth, 25 August 1924, then Golders Green, London, 22 September 1924, then the Princes Theatre

National Health Insurance stamp - Forcible Feeding
Forcible Feeding - Lick! A double-meaning postcard, primarily relating to the introduction of the National Health Insurance stamp under the 1911 National Insurance Act

The unrest in Spain: stormy scenes in Madrid
Spanish infantry charge the strikers who refuse to disperse. Date: 1917

Spanish general strike
Three photographs showing respectively some soldiers charging a group of strikers; the machine gun section installed in the gardens; the infantry, backed up by cavalry

London tube strike, 1919
London takes to walking: incidents of the 1919 tube strike, as reported in The Illustrated London News. The strike began on 3rd February, with Londoners taking a philosophical attitude

Ancient Lightning Rod. Colored engraving
Ancient Lightning Rod with a long iron rod. It was invented in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Colored engraving

Austria 19th century. Labour movement. Charge of Austrian hussars against the strikers mutineers in the neighborhood of New-Lerchenfeld (Vienna), April 8, 1890. Colored engraving

Labor movement. Strike in Paris protected by the army. 19th
Labor movement. Strike in Paris protected by the army. Late nineteenth century. Colored engraving

History of France. Decazeville strike. Military patrols crossing the Duke of Decazes square occupied by the strikers in the coal mines and steel mills. Engraving in 1886 by Comba. Colored engraving

Police officers dispersing the strike of employees of Streetcar in New York, March 4, 1886. Colored engraving

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