Colliery Lasses, British Coal strike (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Colliery Lasses, British Coal strike
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10367
Call Number: LC-B2- 2392-12
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Pitheadgear (48 months ago | reply)
From the time of the 1912 (negative is dated) minimum wage strike which lasted 12 weeks
Retired at last (45 months ago | reply)
That's not a date, it's a reference number.
Which doesn't mean it's not the 1912 strike, just that we don't have a date to confirm it.
Pitheadgear (45 months ago | reply)
The two British coal strikes which the press photographically documented between 1910 and 1915 were the 1911 and 1912 strikes with the 1912 minimum wage strike featuring most strongly, it's tantalising to think that -12 means 1912!
Retired at last (45 months ago | reply)
If you look at a range of the photos from this collection on glass slides they all have a reference number, four digits, hyphen, one or two digits. When they have a date, it's been scratched onto the back and shows up as thin mirror writing.
So it still could be either 1911 or 1912.
Pitheadgear (45 months ago | reply)
True, to add a bit more I'll say as they are termed 'colliery lasses' they are from the Lancashire Coalfield (the term was predominantly used in that area). Its probably the Wigan area where photographers always headed for female colliery worker images, and it's probably the 1912 strike. Take it as an informed guess, I've been researching this coalfield's history for 35 years!
You'll have to come over when you retire and we'll give you a guided tour of the Wigan Coalfield
Regards
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Retired at last (45 months ago | reply)
I'll believe 1912 on your impression of its rightness based on experience of looking at the evidence of the area and period.
I'm a Black Country wench, so Wigan is a fair way off.
Pitheadgear (45 months ago | reply)
I'm a Black Country pork scratchings fanatic!
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