Striking Collection (page 2)

Typical Lancashire miners going on strike: A group of men leaving work until further notice. Date: October 1920

Welsh miners going on strike at the Rhondda valley colliery: Men leaving the mines. Date: October 1920

A striking view of Waltham Abbey, Essex, England, showing the square battlements of King Harolds noble minster, which dominates this little town, on the Hertfordshire border. Date: 11th century

A striking view of the coastal sailing barge Spinaway C, from the quayside at Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Date: 1950s

Egyptian Queen Cleopatra (69 BC-30BC). Cleopatra represented herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess Isis. Date: circa 1910s

Effects of strikes upon the working class and the capitalist
The effects of a strike upon the capitalist and upon the working man Date: 1852

National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap
The National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap for pieces of coal to burn.. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

WW2 - British Air Transport Auxiliary Pilot
WW2 - A smiling British Air Transport Auxiliary Pilot, carrying her parachute over her shoulder. Date: 1944

Swedish Film Actress Greta Garbo - Torrent, 1926
Greta Garbo (1905-1990) - Swedish Film Actress and Movie Star. Garbo was born in Stockholm and was spotted whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz

Striking up, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Linen manufacture, Striking up Date: late 19th century

Striking Miners early 1900s

Striking miners at a coal mine

WW2 - Blenheim Bombers Attacking Warship
A striking illustration which depicts a WW2 scene in which British Blenheim bomber planes attack a German ship of war. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - R. A. F. Machine Gun Practice
A striking photograph which portrays a British WW2 Royal Air Force air observer performing machine gun practice, firing with a camera gun, an exact replica of an actual machine gun

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Harland and Wolff date book
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Extremely rare Harland and Wolff hardbound employees build/date book chronicling the history of the ships built at the yard

Cartoon, Strike while the Iron's Hot! Women's Suffrage
Political cartoon, Strike while the Iron's Hot! Women's Suffrage Date: 1891

Striking Lancashire Workers Date: 1854

Perfectos No. 2 Cigarettes Advertisement
An advertisement for John Player & Sons, a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co of Great Britain and Ireland. The image is promoting Perfectos No

Rowley Hall Dining Room
An illustration showing the dining room of Rowley Hall, Staffordshire. This space has walls of exquisite oak panelling with carved strap work pilasters at intervals

Horseracing Poster
A striking poster showing the head on view of a jockey racing his horse, wearing a bright red helmet. Used as a showcase piece for Colour Magazine's poster gallery. Date: circa 1918

Colour Magazine Poster Gallery Page
A poster design used as a promotion of Colour Magazine's poster gallery, depicting a gentleman wearing a matching yellow suit and top hat, with a monocle

Women and children, mining
Women and children of the mining districts. Children would gather coal. A Typical Pit-brow Woman; She was one of the 6, 221 females employed above ground

Coal Supplies in England which were gradually used up because of the coal strike. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

Horse in coalmine
A horse in a coal mine, surrounded by coal miners. The horse is wearing traditional leather mining gear. Date: 1912

Coal miners strike
The conference of the miners federation of Birmingham meeting to discuss the coal miners strike. The names, reading from left to right, are: Sitting--Mr. H. Duff, Mr. T. H. Cann, Mr. M. C. Kerrell

Three mine workers in America
The United Mine Workers (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in an 1897 strike by the soft-coal miners in the Midwest, winning significant wage increases and growing from 10, 000 to 115, 000 members

Brooklands Racetrack and the River Wey
Motor racing at Brooklands, observed by punters on the River Wey. Date: 1932

Tilly Losch (1903-1975), also known as Ottilie Herbert, and later Countess of Carnarvon, was an Austrian dancer, actress and painter

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona province. The Strike of Igualada. Striking workers from the textile workshops, in the act of being harangued by their president. Engraving by Vela

The Tan Yard, Leather Factory Date: 1874

Henderson Hats Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Henderson Hats, R. C. Henderson Limited, designers and manufacturers of distinctive millinery

A Valley of the Tweed
Oil painting showing sunlight striking a landscape of hills and distant mountains. Awarded the Wynne Prize in 1921. Date: circa 1921

Girl Fastening Her Shoe
Oil painting showing a young girl wearing a striking yellow shirt, busy fastening the strap of her shoe on a small bench. Date: circa 1926

Poster Page, Oranges and Sugar Cubes
Poster page showing a lot of striking oranges, one of which has been neatly part pealed into quarters. There is also a blue bag of sugar cubes, satisfyingly spilling out across the picture

Anna May Wong, actress, studio portrait with top hat and cane. With description, A fantastic camera-study of this well-known actress by Cannons, the English photographer of Hollywood

Photograph of rail strike in France, with soldier and striking worker with rifles and bayonets, on railway line by signals, at the exit from a tunnel

HMS Kale, E-class - River-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Kale, a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered under the 1903-1904 Naval Estimates and named after the Kale Water in the Scottish Borders

Building workers dispute, Lambeth, South London, 19 July 1977. Date: 1977

Trico March 1976
A march in support of the striking workers at the Trico-Folberth windscreen wipers factory, Brentford. The women workers at the factory were on strike demanding equal pay with their male colleagues

Collection for South African rail strike
Two men brandish collection buckets for the South African rail strike to support Rail Against Apartheid. Signs show that the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)

Scottish miners demonstration
Scottish miners, their wives and children on a demonstration during the 1984-85 miners strike Date: 1984

Miners strike demonstration
A demonstration in Wales, in support of the striking coal miners, including members of the Cynon Valley Communist Party, and the National Union of Public Employees (N.U.P.E.) Date: 28 April 1984

Pickets at Snowdown Colliery
Striking coalminers at the Snowdown colliery in Kent, threatened with closure, mount a token picket. The colliery was eventually closed in 1986 Date: February 1981

Gordon McLennan, communist and political activist
Gordon McLennan (1924-2011), former leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain, its National Organiser 1966-1975 and its General Secretary 1976-1989

Wells Cathedral - Jack Blandiver - Wells, Somerset, England
Wells Cathedral - Wells, Somerset, England. Above the Astronomical clock and to the right is a figure, known as Jack Blandifers (Blandiver)

Maria Corda - Hungarian actress
Maria Corda (1898-1976) - Hungarian actress and a star of the silent film era in Germany and Austria. Date: circa 1920s

Woman at the wheel of her car
Stylish woman at the wheel of her car looks round quizzically. Date: circa 1930s

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