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Description: | 1926. Morley Miners outside the Trades and Labour Club on Commercial Street during the General Strike of 1926. They were pushing the barrel organ (just seen in the background) around the streets of Morley and taking collecting tins to raise money for the Central Ward Miners' Distress Fund which helped to feed the miners' children. Many of the miners lived in the "Orchard", just across the road from the Trades and Labour Club, or in the "City" between Peel Street and Ackroyd Street. There were no school dinners at this time and many of the children would have gone hungry had not the miners been able to get something in their collection boxes. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | barrel organ Trades and Labour Club Commercial Street miners | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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