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Boys fishing across a canal towpath

At the side of the road a man can be seen begging with outstretched hat

Spectators lining the course can be seen behind them

Paddy Sowden

Strike Home! Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Boys fishing across a canalStrike Home!, 1872. The baker is on strike and the British worker wonders where he will get his dinner from. This relates to the strike amongst bakers which followed hard on the heels of the extensive strike amongst the country's carpenters. It was to be followed before the end of the year by a strike amongst the Metropolitan police and the capital's gas workers. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 5, 1872.

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