Working and marching in days gone by

Draughtsmen from John Readhead and Sons.

They range from the 1950s, through to the 1970s, and include workers doing a variety of jobs.

They include carrying out MOTs, as well as others who were staging a protest march, complete with placards.

A section of the anti-pay pause demonstration, organised by South Shields Labour Party and Trades Council, pictured approaching Ocean Road on the way to the Town Hall.

Members of the South Shields Labour Party and Trades Council can be seen marching on an anti-pay pause demonstration.

And militant mothers are pictured haranguing education officials outside of Perth Green Secondary School.

There is also a great image, from April 1957, showing workers, some with bikes, heading home after getting “back to normal” – presumably from industrial action!

Do you recognise any of the people in our pictures?

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