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Every face and some of the clothing has been photoshopped!!

two of the dames are in disguise

early spring ? one has a broach of snowdrops, though they could be artificial ( though not plastic! Or even bakeolite:-) )

The Irish Women Workers Union was set up at a meeting on 5 September 1911 in Dublin in the old Concert Hall on Great Brunswick St (Pearse Street).

Delia Larkin front centre? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Larkin

Possibly the 1911 dock strike?

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.

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.

Check out the fingerprint on the policeman's trousers

Well spotted!

Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress

Did Poole do nothing but hang around outside that hotel with a camera photgraphing random mobs of suits?

7/34 clean shaven. Which proves nothing except that tastes change!

From the Irish Examiner on Tuesday, 6 August 1918...

The twenty-fourth annual Irish Trades Union Congress was opened in the City Hall, Waterford, yesterday, under most encouraging and happy circumstances. There was a very large and representative attendance, about 240 delegates from every part of the country being present. The spacious hall was filled to its utmost capacity, and the proceedings were characterised by unanimity and enthusiasm. A civic welcome was extended to the delegates by Councillor Ml. Kirwan, locum tenens for the Mayor, who was absent owing to illness, and local speakers also extended greetings to the delegates. The Congress will occupy three days.

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