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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: 9,711 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: 7,892 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: 8,619 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: 8,991 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: 11,722 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: 10,707 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: 28,074 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: 11,426 Year: 1919
Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes
The clerical staff at Euston Station became porters and unloaded trains carrying food.
Views: 11,320 Year: 1919
Railway Strike, 1919
Work - Strikes
A food convoy in Hyde Park during the railway strike.
Views: 10,900 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: 10,119 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: 7,858 Year: 1912
Coal Picking
Work - Strikes
Coal picking during the strike, 1912, at the Pretoria Pit, Atherton.
Views: 12,313 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: 9,646 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: 9,581 Year: 1911
Omnibus
Transport - Road
Pre-war London omnibus which would rattle along at a few miles per hour.
Views: 10,133 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: 22,839 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: 11,354 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: 11,798 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: 12,758 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: 12,826 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: 13,544 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: 11,494 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: 11,054 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: 11,243 Year: 1900