Bain News Service,, publisher.
London strike. Truck under police protection
[between 1910 and 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09511
Call Number: LC-B2- 2247-4
30 Январь 2010, 18:15 bb_matt Possibly the 1911 dock strike?
30 Январь 2010, 19:55 myla kent what an amazing shot. I would be nervous getting in front of that scene with a digital camera -- that photographer sure was a brave one.
31 Январь 2010, 11:45 br@mbly Number 8 bus from Mile end via Bank, Aldwych, Trafalgar Square. I think this might be somewhere round the Aldwych as there's a theatre on the right. Sadly, though it does still go past Bank, the Number 8 no longer runs this route.
31 Январь 2010, 20:36 R i c h a r d Check out the fingerprint on the policeman's trousers
01 Февраль 2010, 16:02 br@mbly Well spotted!
02 Февраль 2010, 07:15 daveinnola2003 very slip shod way of presenting this picture you would think that they would show two versions as is and cleaned and squared up
02 Февраль 2010, 20:09 AKinsey Foto
ahh - back in the days when EVERYONE wore
hats...
(try to spot someone NOT wearing a hat)
Super collection - I love it !
02 Февраль 2010, 22:51 tony lg that could be the finger prnt of the photographer.... retouchng old images is a different matter.... the imperfections are part of the image and its personal history...
03 Февраль 2010, 14:52 stevenpemberton The date given is wrong. This is the general strike, which happened between 3 and 13 May 1926. If you look carefully you'll see the date in the top right corner mirrored. It says 5/4/26 which, since it is written by an American, means it is 4 May 1926.
04 Февраль 2010, 06:17 br@mbly
You could well be right, Steven. It looks
like 4 May 1926 to me too. But it might be
the same 22.4.7 -4 that's written at the
bottom of the photo - a reference number
rather than a date. These photos come from
the Bain News Service collection and were
mostly taken in 1911-12. The entire
collection spans 1900 - 1920, so it's hard to
see how so many photos from 1926 would have
crept in among the relatively few of Great
Britain.
This link will tell you more: flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72
157603624867...
05 Февраль 2010, 00:04 conner395 Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
05 Февраль 2010, 09:53 conner395 There were certainly transport strikes during 1911, in which the police had to keep the peace. These officers are NOT wearing medal ribbons, which I am sure they would have done had it been post-WWI.
06 Февраль 2010, 04:25 conner395
Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group--
Seen in Police History (?)
06 Февраль 2010, 20:55 ART NAHPRO The police look like City of London police with their distinctive helmets and the heraldic shield in the top right hand corner looks like one of the City heraldic city demarcation symbols . It was probably taken along the No 8 Bus route which runs here:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Buses_route_8#Hi storySo I am not sure if it is Aldwych unless it is running off route because of the strike
07 Февраль 2010, 20:42 Yersinia The no 8 bus looks like a B-type, introduced in 1910, so that would fit with 1911.
08 Февраль 2010, 11:07 Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )
There was a dock strike in London in July of
1912."Mounted police outside a building
during the 1912 dockers strike. The pre-war
era witnessed massive industrial unrest as
dockers, transport workers, miners and other
workers pressed for higher wages and better
conditions. The strike wave only ended with
the outbreak of war in 1914."
Source: Newham Archives and Local Studies
Library CollectionSee images from the Newham Archives and Local
Studies Library Collection:
www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conM
ediaFile.242...There was also a National Coal Strike of
1912.
Source: dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abj76/PG/pi
eces/lawrenc...
09 Февраль 2010, 01:24 Steven Beard LRPS I would say this is in The City and the next time I am their I will pop along and try and find out the exact location and photograph it today.
09 Февраль 2010, 22:07 Yersinia Very very tough to do... most of the city was bombed out of existence.
10 Февраль 2010, 10:12 holyharold
The starched collar on the tradesman on the
right, the lack of lamps on the bus and all
the boater hats, rather than trilbys, set
this earlier than 1926. Even the weather
(sharp hat shadows) looks wrong for May '26.
Also note the pre WWI absence of women!
Compare www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ima
ges/cabinetp... and the bus in www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/ima
ges/cabinetp...
I wonder if the date was added to an older
photo in order to sell it to US papers during
the UK General Strike of '26..?
10 Февраль 2010, 23:01 Yersinia I doubt it - if the clothes and buses seem dubious to us at this remove, then surely they would scream out at a contemporary readership. Surely horse-drawn trucks would have been outmoded by 1926?I think it must be a reference number, rather than a date.
11 Февраль 2010, 01:28 Yersinia Here is a picture from the 1926 General Strike in London:
11 Февраль 2010, 19:49 mando maniac Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ANYTHING GOES ENGLAND,VINTAGE PHOTOS,POSTCARDS,EPHEMERAetc..., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
12 Февраль 2010, 19:47 tbower Was it a requirement for London Bobbies to have mustaches?? ;-)
13 Февраль 2010, 09:00 pintor de so Hi, I'm an admin for a group called FLICKR PARA LA HISTORIA , and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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