MPX5097483: World War II Women: Post Office are taking on girls at school from the age of 14 onwards. To do the Xmas sorting. They do a course of instruction and then pass to the actual sorting rooms for work. They work from 9 till 5 and the L.C.C. have assisted the post office by letting the girls off their school courses for this important work which was mainly done by men. Scene in the instruction room. The girls learn with cards marked to various towns. December 1943 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5096547: The two hunger strikers who have been fasting on the pavement at the corner of Whitehall and Downing Street since Christmas Eve, ended their vigil today as they handed in a petition to No. 10. The men collapsed and had to be carried to the door of No. 10 and after handing the petition were given treatment until transport arrived to take them away. The two men have been protesting against the Northern Ireland special powers act. Lying on the pavement outside No. 10, Christopher Maloney who collapsed after handing in a petition. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images