Picket Collection

Boys Watching Brass Band
Three little boys stand behind a picket gate and watch a brass band playing in a bandstand

Coal arriving at Orgreave
Pickets and police look on as coal is brought into the British Steel coking plant at Orgreave, South Yorkshire during the Coal miners strike

Fire at Arding & Hobbs, Clapham Junction
A fire at the Arding & Hobbs Department Store, Clapham Junction on December 20th, 1909. The store was rebuilt and is still open to this day

Observation - Picket watching Salmah from the Worm, WW1
The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. Observation - Picket watching Salmah from the Worm, North West corner of Gloucester Wood, Winter 1917-1918

Guildford Cathedral
The partially built Guildford Cathedral, Surrey, England, photographed during World War Two when the war suspended building works. Started in 1936, finally completed 1961

Houses and Gardens
A colourful painting of some houses and garden areas inside a picket fence. Date: circa 1917

Old Cottage, Hartley
An etching of a front entrance to a very simple looking cottage in Hartley, New South Wales, Australia, with central steps and a picket fence. Date: 1920

Official picket line outside Vauxhall Motors, Dunstable
Official picket line with placards outside Vauxhall Motors, Dunstable. Date: circa 1970s

Building workers dispute, Lambeth, South London, 19 July 1977. Date: 1977

NALGO union members campaigning with placards
NALGO (National and Local Government Officers Association) union members, gas office and fitting staff, campaigning with placards outside the headquarters of the North Thames gas board, 14 July 1981

Trico strikers 1976
Strikers barrack a car as it crosses the picket line at the Trico-Folberth windscreen wipers factory, Brentford, Middlesex, England

Protest against Lions playing South Africa
Anti-Apartheid Movement demonstrators picketing in Twickenham to stop the British national rugby team playing against South Africa. Their placards read don't play with apartheid'. Date: c

Protesters at the South African embassy
Demonstrators from Lawyers Against Apartheid picketing outside the South African embassy in Trafalgar Square to protest against sixteen years of martial law in Namibia

Pickets at Snowdown Colliery
Striking coalminers at the Snowdown colliery in Kent, threatened with closure, mount a token picket. The colliery was eventually closed in 1986 Date: February 1981

The Battle of Saltley Gate
At Saltley Coke Depot, Birmingham, police struggle to hold back pickets who had gathered to force the closure of the Depot

Peter Hain, Labour politician, campaigning outside a bank
Peter Gerald Hain (b 1950), British Labour politician, has served in various ministerial posts, including Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales

Bethnal Green - slum houses
Slum houses in Crosland Street, Bethnal Green, London. Date: circa 1914

Wreath on the Door Date: 1940

CRICKET / MITCHAM GREEN
A village cricket match on Mitcham Green. Date: 1888

Northern Strike 1846
Strikers in Liverpool in a picket line to prevent strike- breakers. Date: 1846

Liberty Men head off on shore leave aboard a Picket Boat. Date: circa 1910s

Three children in the snow, USA
Three children on a snowy street, the smallest one holding a teddy bear, North America. Date: circa 1910

Toll House Inn Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA. The Toll House was built in 1709, and used for collecting tolls during the days when the whaling industry was at its height. Date: 1934

Dogs Behind a Fence
Four dogs in hats behind a picket fence. Date: early 1930s

First National Firemens Strike, 1977
The first ever National Firemens Strike in 1977 was supported by Firemen from Eccles Fire Station, Manchester. Date: 1977

Kavanaghs journey, Relief of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny
Scenes from Thomas Henry Kavanaghs (1821-1882) perilous journey leading to the Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross

Market Square Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Market Square Tavern, outbuildings and gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1920s

Ashley Lodge, Ringwood, Hampshire - on the edge of Ringwood Forest Date: circa 1907

Ashford Valley Hunt Meet
The Ashford Valley Foxhounds meet outside the Hare & Hounds Pub, Kent, England. Date: 1950s

1930S SEMI
A typical British suburban semi-detached house with green paintwork, actually No. 17, Braemar Gardens, West Wickham, Kent, the house used in the TV series The 1940s House

Auto Club building, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
Auto Club building in the port city of Antofagasta, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1910

Women and children posing on front steps of house, USA
Women and children posing on the front steps of a large house, North America. Date: 1910

North West Frontier Province - Picket of Afghan Infantry at the boundary line between the British and Afghan Territory. Date: circa 1910s

People in a shopping centre (possibly in Gateshead), designed to look like an olde worlde shopping street. Date: circa 1980

Austria 19th century. Labour movement. Charge of Austrian hussars against the strikers mutineers in the neighborhood of New-Lerchenfeld (Vienna), April 8, 1890. Colored engraving

Kensington Palace 1930S
Children and adults enjoying themselves in Kensington Gardens, outside Kensington Palace, London. Date: 1930s

1857 MUTINY / PICKET / 1857
An outlying picket. Date: 1857

Edwardian spectators at an event
An all-male crowd of smartly dressed spectators observe proceedings from behind a picket fence, perhaps at a sporting event in the north east of England. Date: c.1910s

Winter scene in Greystone, USA
Winter scene in Greystone (unidentified location), USA. Date: circa 1905

NWFP - Khyber Pass - Showing Railway Bridge, Tunnel and defences. Date: circa 1920s

Railway strike 1911: Affecting holiday crowds
Strikes causing massive disruptions for holiday makers leaving and entering London. Crowds of people escaping from London trying Margate steamers at London Bridge

Danish Village, Scarboro, Maine, USA
View of front gardens in the Danish Village (Den Danske Landsby), Scarboro, Maine, USA, on the Boston Road, eight miles from Portland. The village was a replica of a small medieval Danish town

Ruth Hargrove Seminary, Key West, Florida, USA
Ruth Hargrove Seminary (or Institute), a boarding and day school for boys and girls in Key West, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1905

Hairdressers Strike, 1919
A motor cycle and sidecar on duty outside the picket line at the Assistants headquarters during the Hairdressers Strike at the end of the First World War

Tent for picket post, White Horse Hill, Chislehurst, Kent. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St

6 studies - WWI soldiers
6 studies, including The Bread Winner, When the boys go back, The Picket and a Scottish soldier at Victoria Station.On reverse - man playing a flute

The innocent games 1914
Women playing blind mans buff outside in the garden. Date: 1914

Boxley Abbey, near Maidstone, Kent, England, was founded by William de Ypres, King Stephens military commander of the whole of Kent during the civil disorder. Date: founded 1146

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