Strike Collection (page 8)

Railway strike 1911: Aftermath
Several scenes in Liverpool where rioters have vandalised public property. Date: August 1911

General Strike 1926: Armoured car in London streets
Armoured car escorting food wagons through the busy streets of Oxford Circus to Hyde Park. Date: May 1926

Railway strike 1911: Magistrate reading the riot act
Magistrate reading the riot act in Vauxhall Road, Liverpool, during the mobs attack on prison-vans. Saying: " Our Sovereign Lord the King Chargeth

Railway strike 1911: Tramcar damage by strikers at Glasgow
One of thousands of tramcars damaged by strikers at Glasgow. Date: August 1911

Great hop-pickers demonstration 1908
Dense crowds in Trafalgar square, demonstrating against a threatened industry of foreign hop imports, large crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square, London, estimated forthy to fifty thousand people

Railway strike 1911: Manchetser terminus, walking passagers
Passagers walking along the metals into London Road, their trains having been deserted. August 1911

Railway strike 1911: Affecting holiday crowds
Strikes causing massive disruptions for holiday makers leaving and entering London. Crowds of people escaping from London trying Margate steamers at London Bridge

The Buses were not affected by the Strike by H. M. Bateman
A fabulous cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a multitude of people trying to chaotically squeeze onto a bus - a comment on the bus strikes affecting Britain in 1919. Date: 1919

Railway strike 1911: London lines being guarded
Great Western Railway was being protected by Grenadiers against any vandalism coursed by protesters. August 1911

National Railway strike of 1911
Double page spread of scenes in London of siege conditions, the great strike threatening to bring the whole railway service of Britain to a standstill

Clock striking midday, Berne, Switzerland
People in the street, listening to the 16th century clock striking midday, in Berne, Switzerland

General Electric strike, Schenectady, New York, USA
General Electric strike on pay day, 8 October 1913, in Schenectady, New York State, USA. 1913

Suffragette Silent Film The Hunger Strike. A still from the 1913 silent film comedy The Hunger Strike. Starring music hall favourite Emund Payne (1863-1914) as a suffragette

Charlotte Marsh Suffragette. Charlotte Augusta Leopoldine Marsh (1887-1961) portrait. Joined the W.S.P.U in 1907, imprisoned several times, forcibly fed after going on hunger strike

Suffragette breaks Window, Miners Strike. Militant suffragette breaks shop window. Miners and Suffragettes are alike. For now they all begin to strike

Lady Constance Lytton Suffragette. Lady Constance Lytton (1869-1923) portrait, seated wearing the Holloway Portcullis brooch, Prisoners Medal and her hunger strike medal. Date: circa 1912

Fire safety for children -- a boy and girl playing near a wrecked car. The boy is about to strike a match near the open fuel cap

Winston Churchill - Daily Herald Cartoon
THE CRISIS IN ESSENCE Caricature of Winston Churchill and Eric Geddes about national railway strike in September 1919. Date: 1919

Hairdressers Strike, 1919
A motor cycle and sidecar on duty outside the picket line at the Assistants headquarters during the Hairdressers Strike at the end of the First World War

Copy of German original medallion - sinking of the Lusitania
This is a British strike of the German original medallion made to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine on the 7th May 1915

There goes our Blinking Parapet again by B Bairnsfather
In this cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather, a mortar strike obliterates a hefty part of the trench living area, while the cynical soldiers sit by, looking fairly apathetic to the whole experience

Havoc aircraft shoot down enemy bombers by G. H. Davis
Night intruders during the Second World War: Havocs (the renamed Douglas Boston) strike at German bombers returning home. Date: 1942

National Coal Strike, 1912
National Coal Strike of 1912. A man inspects an important notice of a coal strike which has closed Cannon Street Station, London. Date: 1912

Shell hole on road, Western Front, France, WW1
A shell hole in a road on the Western Front in France during World War One. It was the result of a British shell striking the road near a German ammunition wagon

London bus during the General Strike, Route 1, destined for Kensington Church, the Aldwych and Notting Hill Gate. Alongside the driver, on the outside of the vehicle

Kladno strikers, October 1918
The people of Kladno gather in the centre of their city in Bohemia, north west of Prague, on strike in support of an independent Czechoslovak republic

Kladno, October 1918
A large crowd gathers for a rally to support the general strike in the centre of Kladno, a city north west of Prague, Bohemia Date: 14 October 1918

Prague strike 1918
Workers on general strike gather in Wenceslas Square, Prague. The city was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at this time. Date: 22 January 1918

The General Strike - incidents of the Strike 1926
The arrest of a woman (between two policemen in centre foreground) at Hammersmith Broadway in West London during the General Strike

The General Strike - civil constabulary reserve 1926
A unit of new recruits to the new civil constabulary reserve, equipped with steel helmets, truncheons and armlets, leaving headquarters at Buckingham Gate in London during the General Strike

The General Strike - clearing up Hyde Park 1926
Clearing up in Hyde Park after the end of the General Strike: packing blankets used by volunteers for return to army stores

The General Strike - demobilisation of volunteers 1926
Colonel St. John Fox, Commandant of the Headquarters Central Division of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reserve, addressing the division (including regulars)

Argentine Guitarists
Argentinian guitarists strike a masculine pose, one foot on a rock, as they play a duet together while their coy womenfolk hide from the camera, South America. Date: 1930s

Women helped during the Great Strike 1926
In Mrs Loefflers canteen at Scotland House. Lady volunteers, including Lady Louis Mountbatten, feeding Special Constables, who had come to Scotland Yard to report, while on duty

The General Strike - lorry transporting passengers
A lorry-load of Londoners in Kingsway, returning home after a days work during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

The General Strike - distributing the countrys food
Volunteers save the situation: Undergraduate Railway Workers. Illustration by ILN special artist, Steven Spurrier depicting the successful distribution of the countrys food during the General Strike

The General Strike - Sphere emergency number
Front cover of The Sphere emergency number issued during the General Strike. Photograph shows mounted police controlling crowds at Elephant and Castle in South London

The General Strike - reading wireless bulletins 1926
Londoners reading the latest news from wireless bulletins issued at Marconi House in the Strand, London during the General Strike

The General Strike - Carrying On 1926
Montage of sketches by ILN Special Artist, Bryan De Grineau showing how volunteers, specials and motorists saved the situation during the General Strike of May 1926

The General Strike - hitching a lift
The Private Motorist does his bit to help people reach their work: An owner-driver at Southfields taking girls aboard. Girls hitching a ride to work during the General Strike

Handing in his lamp
1920 photo showing a Staffordshire miner handing in his lamp before the October 16 coal strike. About one million miners went on strike in aid of wage increases. Date: 1920

Francis Place
FRANCIS PLACE English self-made businessman and reformer; activist for the right to strike. Author of pamphlets and articles on social and economic questions. Date: 1771 - 1854

Communist Demo, USA
A communist demonstration in New York, U.S.A. with banners reading Strike for a 40 hour 5 day week! and Don t starve - fight, etc. Date: early 1930s

Ripman Dancing Girls
Four artistic girls of the Ripman School of Dancing, London, strike a pose. Date: early 1930s

Mount Fuji, Japan - Reproduction of a woodcut by Hokusai - Fuji above the lightning. from the series: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Date: circa 1831

Wife despairs at Husbands awful choice of attire and colour - " Strike me pink!" Date: circa 1940s

Temporary points maintenance - Army - French strike of 1912
Strike on the Northern French Railways in 1912. Bridge at Briche, a control switch being operated by temporary railwaymen - the French Army! Date: 1912

France - Strike of the Western (State) railwaymen - soldiers occupying the Gare Saint-Lazare in improvised conditions. The significance of the five franc coin appears to be the amount requested by

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