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Note the distinctive Trade Union banners. Also there is a band playing on the left of the picture.

Most likely the General Strike of 1926, since another picture in this series is dated May 1926.

The first banner is for the Stepney branch of the "London Carmen." They were one of the primary unions involved in the August 1911 dock strike. According to 'A Summary Description of the Papers of National Union of Vehicle Workers' at www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/126vwcol.htm 'The National Union of Vehicle Workers was formed as the London Carmen's Trade Union in 1888. By 1892 the union's membership had declined from an initial figure of 6,000 to 2,000. The membership of the union rose again in the period 1895-1910. The London Carmen's Trade Union originally represented carters of East End traffic to and from docks and warehouses. The union had a tradition of collaboration with other unions and in 1911 delegates were sent to the first General Council meeting of the National Transport Workers' Federation. The General Secretary of the union, Sam March, sat on the Executive Council of the National Transport Workers' Federation. The London Carmen's Trade Union was strongly influenced by syndicalism and its members were prominent in the 1911 strikes in London. The failure of the 1912 London transport workers' strikes however resulted in a significant loss of membership from 8,000 members in the union to half that number in 1913. In the same year the union changed its name to the National Union of Vehicle Workers (NUVW) . The NUVW was one of the founding members of the Transport and General Workers' Union and played a significant role in bringing road haulage workers into the new union.' The TGWU was formed in 1922. So I think THIS picture is more likely to be from 1911 than 1926.

Agreed. To the right of the bridge, there now stands a much larger building, Adelaide House, built in 1924-5.

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!

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

Beautiful banner! Wonder if it still survives...

Not the steps of the Imperial hotel...

It's the courthouse in Waterford:


Streetview does not get very close.

Sheerness was a cargo ship, and was wrecked at the Tuskar Rock in 1927.

These men worked hard for their pay. I'd imagine more than a few of those pictured had an opinion (and probably input) into the general strike we spoke about late last week. Seemingly the NS&FU joined in the 1890s with other Waterford-based union branches to reduce the working-day to 10 hours, and gain an extra few shillings a week for the dock workers also. As with Carol Maddock, I'd love to think the banner survives. Might need the OFarl to contribute on that.... www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/31575454304/ EDIT: Connolly and Larkin and the ITGWU (representing the dock workers) seemingly did not always have a good relationship with Havelock Wilson and the NS&FU (representing the ship workers). Not helped I guess that Wilson's union was UK-based, and that an action by either group would (if not coordinated) affect the workers of the other union. It looks like members of the Dublin NS&FU branch joined the 1913 lockout however - even if the ITGWU seemingly covered their strike pay rather than the NS&FU itself....

Crew of the Sheerness in 1915.