Strike fund collecting box
This box was used to collect donations in support of striking workers at Tremlett’s paper mill, who were seeking higher wages. It was discovered in the 1980s underneath the floorboards in Fortescue House, the house of one of the leading strike activists.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 318/1988
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Bates, W, Mrs
- Material
- woodpaperink
- Common Name
- strike fund collecting box
- Simple Name
- box
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918)
- Production Date
- 1914
