3-022-387 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Striking Tea Shop Ladies Marching Down the Road, Flanked by Police, 1920. Women walk out during the miners' strike. '...being the time of female emancipation, ladies too were sometimes up in arms. Teashop waitresses came out in protest against unfair treatment of one of their number. There was a shortage of cups of tea as well as coal'. From "Time To Remember - The Plunge Into Peace", 1920 (Reel 2); events of 1920 - weddings, women's rights, industrial unrest and problems in Ireland