London strike. Truck under police protection (LOC)

days when the horses once laugh at the site of this thing =)

fingerprint

the uniforms haven't changed much :)

I don't think the helmets are quite as tall these days.

another fingerprint

Date in mirror writing: 5/4/26 = 4th May 1926, General Strike London

City of London '(The Square Mile') marker (boundarys(?)

Says. 'CITY...'

Gay Bobby?

another finger print

London strike. Truck under police protection (LOC) by The Library of Congress.

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

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bb_matt says:

Possibly the 1911 dock strike?
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

myla kent says:

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.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

br@mbly says:

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.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

R i c h a r d says:

Check out the fingerprint on the policeman's trousers
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

br@mbly says:

Well spotted!
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

daveinnola2003 says:

very slip shod way of presenting this picture you would think that they would show two versions as is and cleaned and squared up
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

© AK Foto says:

ahh - back in the days when EVERYONE wore hats...
(try to spot someone NOT wearing a hat)
Super collection - I love it !
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

tony lg says:

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...
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

stevenpemberton says:

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.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

br@mbly says:

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...
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

conner395 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

conner395 says:

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.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

conner395 says:

Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group

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Seen in Police History (?)
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

ART NAHPRO says:

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 story

So I am not sure if it is Aldwych unless it is running off route because of the strike
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

Yersinia says:

The no 8 bus looks like a B-type, introduced in 1910, so that would fit with 1911.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) says:

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 Collection

See 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...
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Steve Beard says:

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.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Yersinia says:

Very very tough to do... most of the city was bombed out of existence.
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

holyharold says:

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..?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Yersinia says:

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.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Yersinia says:

Here is a picture from the 1926 General Strike in London:

Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

mando maniac says:

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!
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

tbower says:

Was it a requirement for London Bobbies to have mustaches?? ;-)
Posted 6 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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