Little is known about this photograph but we can surmise that the Westwood Relief Fund Committee may well have been set up to help the families of striking miners during pit lock outs.  During the 1926 Strike soup kitchens were set up to feed the miners' children. The large vessel, centre front, may well have been a soup tureen.

When times were hard (which was often the case) communities pulled together.  Mrs Catherine Holland, wife of Matthew Holland would often travel as far as Annesley Woodhouse with the family dray, begging for money and donations of food for the needy miners. Help was not always forthcoming as one bystander asked Mrs Holland if she didn't have anything better to do. If Mrs Holland had collected enough provisions in a day, she and other women would then start to prepare and cook the soup.  Children queued for hours to wait for their portion. 

Matthew Holland, a green grocer in Selston, extended as much credit as he could to the needy families and actually re-mortgaged his  property to make money available to the needy.