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Shrubhill

Transport Dept Workshops

 

Shrubhill  -  Transport Dept Workshops during a strike in the1920s

Beds and men in Shrubhill Transport Department workshops during the strike of 1920

©  Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc                                              Photogrpaher:  Possibly E O Catford

Shrubhill

Transport Dept Workshops

The caption on the back of this photograph, in the Edinburgh City Archive refers to workers sleeping in the Transport Dept workshops at Shrubhill during the strike,
15-17 November1920.

However, the same photograph appears in DLG Hunter's book, Edinburgh Transport: The Corporation Years.  Here the scene is described as a photograph taken during the General Strike, May 1926, in the Heavy Repair Shop at Shrubhill, turned into a dormitory for temporary workforce.

Please click here  to see a photograph of the beds at Shrubhill.

 

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