Images Dated 28th August 2015

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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A general view of the scene outside Silverdale House, Hampstead Road, London when

A general view of the scene outside Silverdale House, Hampstead Road, London when large crowds assembled to hamper the progress of police who had arrived to give bailiffs support in their attempt to evict Mr. Arthur Rowe, a 59 year old waiter who has been barricaded in his flat for the past month as a protest against a recent St. Pancras Council rent increase. - 22nd September 1960.
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Mounted sack race in Hayward s Heath Gymkhana. Musical chairs, balloon bursting

Mounted sack race in Haywards Heath Gymkhana.
Musical chairs, balloon bursting, relay and potato races with all competitors on horseback, were a feature of the Mounted Gymkhana at the Summer Show of the Haywards Heath Horticultural Society in Victoria Park, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
Photo shows, a competitor leading her horse in the sack race. Each rider has to circle the course twice, over hurdles to the starting post, get into a sack and lead in the mount to the winning post.
8 July 1936

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