The British Slave handbrake turn 25 July 1799

25 July 1799

View showing shops and houses on what was formerly Church Street

Dryse and Snider Enfield

inspired by a speech of George III alluding to a distemper among horned cattle

The British Slave handbrake turn 25 July 1799'The British Slave', 1861. The worker, a bricklayer, has been on strike, but, looking at his distressed wife and children, has realised his family needs him to return to work. There is no fire in the grate, nor food on the table. His working tools lie idle on the floor under a notice of the bricklayers' demands. A union official, stout, florid and well dressed, finds it easy to instruct the bricklayer to remain on strike, and not to give in, Want to