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.

25. Norweb electricity maintenance enginneers from the AEEU, UNISON and GMB unions, out on strike at the Wigan depot in Stephen's Way, Goose Green

. Photo: NICK FAIRHURST

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26. Striking lecturers on the picket line outside Wigan and Leigh College, Parsons Walk

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW

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27. North West Water workers man the picket line at the Wigan depot, Stephens Way, Wigan, during a one-day official strike to object to their jobs being transfered to contracting companies

. Photo: GERALD WEBSTER

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28. Striking miners march through Wigan town centre in 1984

. Photo: Submitted

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