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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Operatives,mills,manufacturing,mill workers,1885,unions,worker,union,labour,heritage,history,mill operatives,operatives,Victorian,working-class,organisation,workers,flax,Verdant Works,Scotland,Dundee textile industry,collective organisation,workers solidarity,industrial relations,collective bargaining,wage dispute,workers rights,female factory workers,women trade unionists,Victorian working conditions,labour activism,union membership,employee representation,social reform,industrial protest,low wages,Organised 9th September 1885
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3ENF239 - A historic textile trade-union banner for the Dundee & District Mill & Factory Operatives Union is displayed at Verdant Works Museum in Dundee, Scotland. The richly coloured banner carries the union's name across the top, the date Organised 9th September 1885 in its centre and the motto United to Support Not Combined to Injure along the lower edge. Decorative flourishes, a red central panel, blue border and hanging fringe give the object the ceremonial appearance associated with late Victorian labour organisations.
The union was founded in 1885 during a dispute over a proposed five per cent reduction in wages in Dundee's mills. It represented workers in an industry dominated by jute and flax production, where long hours, low pay, dangerous machinery, dust and poor ventilation were familiar features of working life. Dundee Heritage Trust records that by 1891 the organisation had 5,945 women members and 600 men, reflecting the unusually large female workforce in the city's textile sector. Women outnumbered men by about three to one in Dundee mills, contributing to the city's historical nickname She Town .
The banner is evidence of working-class organisation, mutual support and collective bargaining during the growth of the modern labour movement. Its language stresses solidarity and protection rather than aggression. Although trade unionism overlapped with socialist and labour politics, the banner alone does not establish a specific party or ideological affiliation, so it is more accurately described as a workers' union and labour-history object.
Verdant Works occupies a restored nineteenth-century jute mill. The museum preserves machinery, archives, photographs and histories linked to the trade that made Dundee known as Juteopolis. This image is suitable for editorial coverage of trade unions, industrial relations, women workers, labour history, collective action, Victorian textiles, working-class politics, wage disputes and social reform
West Henderson's Wynd, Dundee, Scotland, DD1 5BT
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EENGKH - Street advertising poster on Tib Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, photographed on an urban wall with graffiti and a BUILDHOLLYWOOD poster frame. The design uses bold red, black and white graphic lettering, picket placard motifs and trade union branding to promote the 100 year anniversary of one of Britain's most important labour disputes. The General Strike began in May 1926 after the Trades Union Congress called action in support of coal miners resisting wage cuts and longer hours, becoming a defining moment in the history of organised labour, industrial relations, class politics and workers' rights in the UK. Manchester is a particularly resonant setting for this image, with its long associations with trade unionism, Chartism, co-operation, radical publishing, the labour movement, the Peterloo legacy and working-class political history. The image may be useful for editorial features on the General Strike centenary, labour history, protest culture, industrial action, union organisation, public history campaigns, poster art, political communication, street media, outdoor advertising, Manchester heritage and Northern Quarter street culture. The visible design references mass mobilisation, collective action and solidarity, while the surrounding graffiti and city-centre setting place the commemoration in a contemporary urban landscape. The photograph has a documentary feel, with overcast or shaded daylight and muted street tones contrasting with the vivid red poster graphics. It can illustrate debates about strike action, public sector disputes, union rights, pay, working conditions, political memory, social history education and the continuing relevance of 1926 to modern Britain. The poster also connects to 2026 centenary events and exhibitions exploring a century of strikes, solidarity and democratic protest.
General Strike centenary poster on Tib Street, Manchester, marking 100 years since the 1926 workers'
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Station Rd, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, UK, HG5 9AA
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Warrington Central, Winwick Street, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA2 7FW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R55JD7 - This image shows a Victorian industrial poster headed Rules to be Observed in This Mill , issued in Haslingden, Lancashire, during the mid-19th century. The document sets out a detailed list of rules governing the behaviour, timekeeping, and conduct of workers employed in a textile mill, reflecting the highly disciplined nature of factory life during Britain's Industrial Revolution.
The rules include fines for lateness, talking, leaving machinery unattended, damaging equipment, or disobeying overseers, illustrating the rigid control exercised by mill owners over their workforce. Such notices were commonly displayed in cotton mills across Lancashire, where large numbers of men, women, and children were employed in spinning and weaving under demanding conditions.
The dense typography, formal language, and hierarchical tone of the poster convey the power imbalance between employers and workers in Victorian industrial society. References to overseers, deductions from wages, and dismissal for misconduct provide valuable insight into the everyday realities of 19th-century labour relations before the introduction of modern employment rights and health and safety protections.
Haslingden, located in the Rossendale Valley, was an important centre of the Lancashire cotton industry, and documents like this form a key part of the region's industrial heritage. Today, such posters are studied as primary sources for understanding social history, labour reform, and the lived experience of factory workers during Britain's transformation into an industrial nation.
This image is well suited to editorial use covering the Industrial Revolution, labour history, Victorian Britain, social inequality, textile manufacturing, and the historical development of workplace regulation in the UK.
Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire, England, UK, BB4 4NP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PJHNWB - Abellio East Midlands Limited, trading as East Midlands Railway (EMR), is a train operating company in England, owned by Transport UK Group, and is the current operator of the East Midlands franchise
In March 2017, the Department for Transport announced that Arriva, a joint venture between FirstGroup and Trenitalia, and incumbent Stagecoach had been shortlisted to bid for the next East Midlands franchise. Abellio was added in February 2018.
FirstGroup and Trenitalia pulled out of the bidding process in April 2018 to focus on the West Coast Partnership franchise. In April 2019 the franchise was awarded to Abellio, with East Midlands Railway (EMR) to take over the franchise from East Midlands Trains (EMT) on 18 August 2019 for a period of eight years.
In June 2019, Abellio revealed branding and colour scheme using distinct purple and white colours to reflect the heritage of the East Midlands. It also confirmed it would divide the services into three segments:
EMR InterCity for long-distance services from London St Pancras
EMR Regional for services across the East Midlands
EMR Electrics for the outer suburban London St Pancras to Corby service
In April 2021 it was announced that EMR Electrics would be rebranded as EMR Connect.
In February 2023, Transport UK Group concluded a management buyout of Abellio's United Kingdom business, which included EMR
Lime St station platform, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 1JD
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Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, England, UK, M3 1WY
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREC56 - 1. A Real Pay Rise.
2. Slash Energy Bills.
3. End Food Poverty.
4. Decent Homes for All.
5. Tax the Rich.
Enough is Enough is a campaign to fight the cost of living crisis.
We were founded by trade unions and community organisations determined to push back against the misery forced on millions by rising bills, low wages, food poverty, shoddy housing “ and a society run only for a wealthy elite.
We can't rely on the establishment to solve our problems. It's up to us in every workplace and every community.
UK
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Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Station Approach, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England, UK, M1 6FU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JBXJR9 -
Golborne Rd, Winwick, Warrington, Cheshire,England, WA2 8SZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AYHJ4Y - Ada Salter (née Brown
1866“1942) was an English social reformer, environmentalist, pacifist and Quaker, President of the Women's Labour League and President of the National Gardens Guild. She was one of the first women councillors in London, the first woman mayor in London and the first Labour woman mayor in the British Isles.
Born on 20 July 1866 in Raunds, Northamptonshire, Ada Brown was active in the Methodist church and on the radical wing of the Liberal Party before she joined the West London Mission in Bloomsbury to work as a Sister of the People in the slums of St Pancras. The Sisters were run by Katherine Hughes, an inspirational Christian socialist, but in 1897 Ada transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement. There she met Alfred Salter, agnostic and socialist, a resident engaged in medical research into infectious diseases on a farm in Sudbury (now Wembley), Middlesex. Under her influence Alfred converted to Christianity and joined the Liberal Party. They both committed to the Society of Friends (Quakers) and started to attend the Deptford Meeting. They were married in Raunds on 22 August 1900.
Ada was President of the Women's Liberal Party in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe but in 1906 she left the Liberal Party when it failed to honour its promise of granting the vote to women and soon joined the ILP (Independent Labour Party). The ILP was the political party most favourable to the rights of women and wanted to stand women candidates, including Ada, at the next council elections.
Re-elected to Bermondsey Council in 1919, Ada was appointed Mayor of Bermondsey in 1922, making her the first woman mayor in London and first Labour woman mayor in Britain. She had launched in 1920 her famous Beautification Committee and now she launched her housing campaign, demolishing the slums that could be demolished and beautifying the slums that could not. By the 1930s she had planted 7000 trees, decorated buildings with window-boxes,and filled all open spaces with flowers
101 Bermondsey Wall East, Rotherhithe, London, England,UK, SE16 4NB
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Station Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK, B73 6AQ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43P0X - The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the Big Four railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At that time, it was divided into the new British Railways' Eastern Region, North Eastern Region, and partially the Scottish Region.
It covered the area north and east of London. It included the East Coast Main Line from London to Edinburgh via York and Newcastle upon Tyne and the routes from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Inverness. Most of the country east of the Pennines was within its purview, including East Anglia. The main workshops were in Doncaster, with others at Darlington, Inverurie and Stratford, London
On the privatisation of British Rail in 1996, the franchise to run long distance express trains on the East Coast Main Line was won by Sea Containers Ltd, who named the new operating company Great North Eastern Railway (GNER), a name and initials deliberately chosen to echo the LNER.
Following the collapse of Virgin Trains East Coast in May 2018, the newly-nationalised operator of the East Coast Main Line was named London North Eastern Railway to evoke the earlier company
Aberdeen railway station, Guild St, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, AB11 6LX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XNE9 - A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution.
Credit unions may offer financial services as commercial banks such as share accounts (savings accounts), share draft accounts (cheque accounts), credit cards, credit, share term certificates (certificates of deposit), and online banking. Normally, only a member of a credit union may deposit or borrow money. In several African countries, credit unions are commonly referred to as SACCOs (Savings and Credit Co-Operatives).
Worldwide, credit union systems vary significantly in their total assets and average institution asset size, ranging from volunteer operations with a handful of members to institutions with hundreds of thousands of members and assets worth billions of US dollars. In 2018, the number of members in credit unions worldwide was 375 million, with over 100 million members having been added since 2016.
Leading up to the financial crisis of 2007“2008, commercial banks engaged in approximately five times more subprime lending relative to credit unions and were two and a half times more likely to fail during the crisis. American credit unions more than doubled lending to small businesses between 2008 and 2016, from $30 billion to $60 billion, while lending to small businesses overall during the same period declined by around $100 billion. In the US, public trust in credit unions stands at 60%, compared to 30% for big banks. Furthermore, small businesses are 80% more likely to be satisfied by a credit union than with a big bank.
Natural-person credit unions (also called retail credit unions or consumer credit unions) serve individuals, as distinguished from corporate credit unions, which serve other credit unions
Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P69RFP - St Mary's Branch of the Mothers' Union was formed in 1908 and is part of the worldwide organisation which has over 4 million members across 81 countries.
Our members are not all mothers, or even all women. Male, female, single, married, parents, grandparents, and young adults are all welcome.
Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm in Fellowship Room, unless otherwise stated on the programme.
46 Rectory Ln, Lymm WA13 0AL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H552C1 - Mothers' Union is an international Christian charity that seeks to support families worldwide. Its members are not all mothers or even all women, as there are many parents, men, widows, singles and grandparents involved in its work. Its main aim is to support monogamous marriage and family life, especially through times of adversity.
London Bridge,England,UK
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Manchester Piccadilly Rail Station , Piccadilly Station Approach, Manchester, Greater Manchester, En
