Strikes Collection (page 9)

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

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

Great railway strike, newspapers by aeroplane 1919
Railway strike brought aerial transport even more to the front than usual, daily newspapers and mail were delivered, even at the very beginning of the strike, almost at normal times. October 1919

Great railway strike, trekking to business 1919
When the railway strike first happened Londoners used other means of transportation, buses and trams to find their way to town, needless to say they could not cope with the amount of commuters

Great railway strike, london commuters 1919
Londoners having a lift on the back of a horse-van. 1919

Rail Strike, queing for the tram-car 1919
Hundreds of commuters in london queing patiently for the already over utilsed tram-car. October 1919

General Strrike 1926: Request for lift
The official request that drivers of cars in which there was a spare seat should pick up any pedestrian who needed a lift was well responded to. May 1926

Strikers Stop Train
The wives & children of strikers at the Cummings Nail Mills in Chicago stop a train as a protest. Date: 1886

Mens underwear 1930
Hand on the hip, coat off the shoulder & cigarette in hand, this man strikes a nonchalant yet manly pose to model his under garments. 1930

Great railway strike, available tram-car 1919
Crowd of London commuters waiting patiently for the next available tram-car, during the Great railway strike of 1919. October 1919

Great railway strike, crownded car 1919
RAIL STRIKE Londoners caught out by the sudden rail strike cram into whatever means of transport they can find: here seen overloading a motorcar Date: October 1919

General Strrike 1926: The Lever Brakes
The Lever Breakes the Trades Union Congress tries, unsuccessfully, to use the General Strike to topple the Government. May 1926

Byron / Palazzo Mocenigo
Byron strikes a romantic attitude in his Italian home, the Villa Mocenigo

Stonehenge at sunrise on 21 June
View of Stonehenge at sunrise on 21 June -- the sun strikes the Altar Stone, providing archaeologists with a means of dating the construction. Date: 1901

London bus strike 1891
Front cover of The Penny Illustration Paper showing the first strike by London transport workers in 1891, over working conditions and pay. Date: 1891

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

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

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

Girl in fancy dress, Camborne, Cornwall
Girl in fancy dress for a carnival at Camborne, Cornwall, dressed in a matchbox costume with no more strikes written, punningly, on the side

WW2 poster, Achtung! Achtung! The Lancaster strikes by night, the Fortress strikes by day. Date: 1940s

Macaronis 1789
Macaronis from the Mock Duel, 1789. One dandyish young man strikes another. Date: 1789

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

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

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 - 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

Testing Sound Waves
Ray Kulz blows his trumpet, Jimmy Noel strums his guitar and George Macdonald strikes the cymbal into an OSCILLOSCOPE to see if sound waves vary. Very much so! Date: 1930s

THE HUMAN BAT
The Human Bat, strikes a pose! Date: early 1930s

Moses Telling Israelites Gather Manna Striking
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Ichikawa Ebizō Danjūrō V Role Mongaku Shonin Disguised
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The Railway Strikes in Scotland: a Procession of Strikers Passing down the Canongate Edinburgh

The Railway Strikes in Scotland: Lunch in a Booking Office Whilst Waiting for the Train

Strike of the grocers, a brawl, title page from Le Petit Journal, 8 January 1899
XIR414063 Strike of the grocers, a brawl, title page from Le Petit Journal, 8 January 1899 (colour engraving) by French School, (19th century); Musee de La Presse, Paris

Belonging to a Country Corps, which Owing to the Distance and Railway Facilities has to Start Betimes for the Review, I Rise and Shave as the Stable Clock Strikes I A.M. 1888 Engraving

October 17th, 1905 (oil on canvas)
BAL291356 October 17th, 1905 (oil on canvas) by Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930); 184x323 cm; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The strikes at the South Metropolitan Gas Companys Works, Vauxhall London UK, 1889

The element of fire, attributed to Jacob de Gheyn (II), 1588 - 1592

Power as female soldier in armor with lion, Cornelis van Dalen (I), Lowijs Elzevier (III), 1642

Cartouche with a quote from Cicero, Frans Huys, Hans Vredeman de Vries, Gerard de Jode, 1555

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