PICKETING PAST: a picture gallery of Wiganers on strike over the decades

This year will be remembered as one dogged by industrial disputes as all manner of public and private sector workers took to the picket lines in fights for better pay or conditions. But of course this is nothing new, as this gallery of pictures taken of Wigan folk on strike from Victorian times through to the first decade of this millennium shows.

Wigan industrial unrest: 1893 to 2011.

9. Engineers carry banners to Wigan's GPO telephone exchange during a 1969 dispute

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10. Members of Unison staged an anti-cuts demo in Market Place, Wigan to coincide with Chancellor George Osbourne's mini-budget

. Photo: Paul Greenwood

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11. Workers from Harvey's Bakers in Cale Lane, New Springs, line up to receive their wages during a strike in the 1960s

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12. Workers on strike outside Griffin House, Bryn

. Photo: Nick Fairhurst

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