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Description: | 1893.
View of Morley Main Colliery during the miners' strike or 'lockout' of 1893 which lasted for 17 weeks. The Medical Officer of Health reported; 'Morley has had to pass through the most severe and trying crisis she has ever experienced'. The infant mortality rate was the highest ever recorded, and there were many cases of illness and disease related to malnutrition and general poor health.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Strike Morley Main Colliery lockout | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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