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Picture No 10583089
Date 1926
Description The General Strike, 1926: volunteers
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'Are we downhearted? The answer is Negative.' A page from The Tatler, applauding the magnificent response which all classes of Society made to the Government's call for volunteers in the wake of the General Strike of 1926. Here, Mrs. Orbach drives cars for the Red Cross, Captain Peebles Chaplain is shown hauling coal, and a variety of aristocratic ladies work in canteens in Hyde Park and Scotland Yard for the refreshment of volunteers, special constables and transport workers.
Source Page in The Tatler, 12th-19th May 1926 Emergency issue, page 235.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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