Events from the year 1911 in the United Kingdom. This year saw the coronation of King George V. 1911 was also a census year. Incumbents Monarch – George V Prime Minister – H. H. Asquith (Liberal) Parliament – 30th (starting 31 January) Events 3 January – in London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists holed up in a building in the East End. The Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, attends in person. March–April – eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank in Scotland go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation. Four hundred alleged ringleaders are dismissed. 2 April – the 1911 census is taken. One out of every seven employed persons is a domestic servant. Suffragette Emily Davison hides in a cupboard in the crypt of the Palace of Westminster so that she can legitimately be recorded as resident on census night at the House of Commons; several thousand women evade being recorded in the census as a protest against the lack of women's suffrage. 4 April – work begins on construction of Castle Drogo, Devon, to the design of Edwin Lutyens. May–September – hottest British summer on record. 12 May – Festival of Empire opens at The Crystal Palace, London, to celebrate the Coronation. 31 May – launching of the ocean liner in Belfast. Her sister sails for Liverpool the same day to take up transatlantic service. 14 June – Liverpool general transport strike begins. 22 June Coronation of George V and Queen Mary at Westminster Abbey, London. Completion of the Royal Liver Building, Liverpool, is marked by starting the clocks in its towers at the same moment as the Coronation and in New York Harbor is decorated for the occasion. July–September – severe heat wave and associated drought. 13 July – the future Edward VIII is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Carnarvon Castle devised by David Lloyd George. 14 July – new buildings of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, opened. 22 July–5 August – first Daily Mail Circuit of Britain air race. 9 August – Raunds, Northamptonshire, records a temperature of 98 °F (36.7 °C), the highest UK temperature until 1990. 10 August – British MPs vote to