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.

21. Striking Pemberton Caravans workers in Woodhouse Lane

. Photo: BRAIN MCAULEY

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22. Wigan postal workers striking ouside Wigan sorting office led by Paul Fenney, boss of the Communication Workers' Union

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow

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23. Police support staff who were members of Unison strike outside Wigan Police Station

. Photo: NICK FAIRHURST

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24. Wigan miners on strike in the town centre during the 1926 General Strike

. Photo: Send in

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