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MPX5124429: Commuters making their way to work near The Bank in the City of London, on the 8th day of the General Strike. The national dispute came about after negotiations between the miners and mine owners failed over wages and the strike began on 3 May 1926. Millions obeyed the strike call, bringing transport systems to a halt while newspapers were not printed. The government responding by using volunteers to run trains and buses and sent in troops to move supplies from the London docks. There were clashes between police and crowds in many areas and at least 4000 strikers were arrested. There were attacks on buses and trains, including the derailing of the Flying Scotsman. The strike was called off unilaterally by the TUC on 12 May with no guarantees of fair treatment for the miners who fought on to bitter defeat in October. 11th May 1926 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124447: Commuters crowd onto buses and make shift public transport to get home from work, seen here at Kensington, on the second day of the General Strike. The national dispute came about after negotiations between the miners and mine owners failed over wages and the strike began on 3 May 1926. Millions obeyed the strike call, bringing transport systems to a halt while newspapers were not printed. The government responding by using volunteers to run trains and buses and sent in troops to move supplies from the London docks. There were clashes between police and crowds in many areas and at least 4000 strikers were arrested. There were attacks on buses and trains, including the derailing of the Flying Scotsman. The strike was called off unilaterally by the TUC on 12 May with no guarantees of fair treatment for the miners who fought on to bitter defeat in October, 4th May 1926 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124397: Commuters using make shift public transport to get to work on the second day of the General Strike. The national dispute came about after negotiations between the miners and mine owners failed over wages and the strike began on 3 May 1926. Millions obeyed the strike call, bringing transport systems to a halt while newspapers were not printed. The government responding by using volunteers to run trains and buses and sent in troops to move supplies from the London docks. There were clashes between police and crowds in many areas and at least 4000 strikers were arrested. There were attacks on buses and trains, including the derailing of the Flying Scotsman. The strike was called off unilaterally by the TUC on 12 May with no guarantees of fair treatment for the miners who fought on to bitter defeat in October, 4th May 1926 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124588: The ceremony, arranged by Council of the University of Paris, to confer the degree of Doctor honoris causa on poet and author Mr. Rudyard Kipling (centre) and Sir James G. Frazer, author of The Golden Bough as eminent friends of France. Pictured on the right is Monsieur Appell, the Rector of the Sorbonne where the ceremony took place. 18th November 1921 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124395: Actress Wendy Craig paid a visit to Warwick to open the Emscote Lawn School Elizabethan Fair. Miss Craig said: "The education of our children is one of the most vital matters in the world today. We must preserve a choice of school in order to cater for every kind of child. We don't want to produce children like cars from an assembly line, lacking individual flair." Miss Craig, star of the TV series, "Not in Front of the Children," arrived from her mother's home in Kenilworth by an "Elizabethan horse-drawn coach" re-constructed by boys at the school. A ducking stool, quintain(jousting), stocks, madrigals, a pig roast, archery, falconry and the school staff and pupils in full Elizabethan costume provided the period flavour, 27th June 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images