Mrs Taffy's Elixir Olga Alexandrovna Devonshire Place and Wimpole Street

Devonshire Place and Wimpole Street

View of the site on Basinghall Street cleared for the new library in1870

Racing at Snetterton

stretching out their arms to receive an enormous bunch of grapes

Mrs Taffy's Elixir Olga Alexandrovna Devonshire Place and Wimpole Street'Mrs Taffy's Elixir', 1873. The Union representative in the centre is told that, had the workers had a vote, they would not have voted to strike. This cartoon relates to the strike action taken by 10,000 ironmasters' colliers in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire at the beginning of 1873. The knock on effect was to put a further 60,000 ironworkers, temporarily at least, out of work. Punch disapproved of the numerous strikes being taken by workers in various