Soup Kitchen, General Strike, Shieldhill

Maker
Unknown
Production date
1926
 Description
Eight women in white blouses and aprons and two men pose beside a coal-fired boiler.
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Maker
Production date
1926
Subject person
Subject place
Shieldhill Primary School/Main St/Shieldhill/Polmont area
Subject notes
The soup kitchen was located outside Shieldhill Public School. Soup kitchens were staffed by miners and their wives, and the food came mainly from donations. As there was no strike pay there was considerable hardship.

Marshall, Lizzie (L); Penman, Mrs John (2 from L); Reid, William (4 from L); White, Mrs (5 from L); Penman, Mrs George (6 from L); Hughes, Mrs Joe (7 from L); Anderson, Robert (2 from R); Webster, Mary (R)
Accession number
P14897

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