The Road to Sheffield mb-code 00611835 c1835: showing premises of J

c1835: showing premises of J Reid

The former Liberal Prime Minister

marches unsuspectingly towards sudden death

in sharp contrast to the transatlantic fins and chrome of the fifties

according to Mr Punch

The Road to Sheffield mb-code 00611835 c1835: showing premises of J'The Road to Sheffield', 1867. Mr Punch as a policeman stands outside a tailor's shop and calls the man armed with the 'Union' club to order as he attempts to intimidate a non union worker. The trade union movement was still very young. Unions were still relatively small and their reputation was not altogether unblemished. The 1860s had seen a number of outrages and, in Sheffield, a system of intimidation of workers in order to force them into