Waterloo Bridge builders union meeting August 1939 Theodore Lane Coloured aquatint from Ackermann's Colosseum

Coloured aquatint from Ackermann's Colosseum series

the whistling of drovers

Unidentified suffragettes preparing and counting tickets at the Women's Exhibition May 1909

Sale proceeds from the exhibition went into the union's suffrage campaign fund

The wooden partitions between tables are typical of the London chop-house of the period - such establishments were common in the City and along Fleet Street and the Strand until late Victorian times

Waterloo Bridge builders union meeting August 1939 Theodore Lane Coloured aquatint from Ackermann's ColosseumWaterloo Bridge builders union meeting, August 1939. Disputes over the development of Waterloo Bridge had lasted ten years from the old bridge's closure in 1927. Work began to demolish the old bridge in 1937 and a foundation stone taken from it was laid for the new bridge in 1939. The government paid 60% of the cost of building the replacement, which was designed by George Gilbert Scott. Work on the new Waterloo Bridge started just before the outbreak