Twentieth Century Gallery

Down Lambeth Way . Lambeth Walk is buying a Spitfire of its own

Down Lambeth Way .
Lambeth Walk is buying a Spitfire of its own . At the side of many market stalls are boxes made of wood by Mr Harry Smith , the local undertaker . When full the boxes will be sent to the Minister of Aircraft Production .
October 1940
?TopFoto History of London - Vauxhall / Lambeth

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Man on horseback in front of grocers shop around Sevenoaks area, Kent. Advertisements and signs

Man on horseback in front of grocer's shop around Sevenoaks area, Kent. Advertisements and signs: "T. H. Knight, Draper, Grocer, Messer's Cronk Chartered Surveyors, 138 High Street, Sevenoaks. Brooke Bond Tea, Colman's Blue, Buy Leon's Coffee and Chicory Extract, Leon's Tea, Robin Starch for dainty linen, Spratt's Dog Cakes, Otford - Automobile Association, Plaza Super Cinema Poster: Simone Simon - Walter Winchell - Love and Hisses [1937]", smalltown, village, rural, atmospheric, street scene.
[box PLANET92157 - actual negative number 9215 (unknown archive)]
1937 - 1939, late 30s, early 40s ?

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Waiters, chefs and kitchen hands at Londons Savoy hotel went on strike early today

Waiters, chefs and kitchen hands at London's Savoy hotel went on strike early today, it was decided that tables were to be left bare and underserviced in the private suites, restaurant and Grill room. Tickets has been detailed to guard every staff door and the taxi driver in entrance to warn the catering staff of the strike. The strikers are members of the London catering branch of the general and municipal workers union who claimed that 500 of the total staff of 800 are now in the union. The strike committee said "we have been forced to take this action after every other avenue of approach has been closed by the management."
Picture shows: Mrs Kaufmann, wife of a chef at the Savoy hotel, picketing outside the building this morning.
8 October 1946

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