Unemployment Collection

The head of the Jarrow Crusade seen here during the first stage of their journey to London. The Jarrow March was a protest march in England in October 1936 against the unemployment

The Jarrow March. The marchers left Jarrow on 5th October 1936. They reached London on 31st October 1936 and they returned to Jarrow on 5th November 1936

Unemployment Jarrow Marchers men in uniform carrying a banner reading Jarrow Crusade - protest march

Closing of the Eagley Mills (clock tower of Eagley Mills can been seen in the background), Eagley, near Bolton, Greater Manchester. Eagley Mills is owned by J P Coats Ltd

Liverpool housewives seen here gossiping in the street. Women holding parcel June 1962

A section of the huge crowd that gathered to hear the speakers at the Jarrow marchers demonstration in Hyde Park

Scenes in Hemsworth Village, Yorkshire. Unemployment is high in the village following a run down of the coal industry. 19th March 1971

The Job Centre in Linwood shortly after Peugeot announce the closure of the Talbot car factory in Linwood. February 1981

Unemployed sailors thrusting their discharge books through a landing-stage barrier at Liverpool in the hope of filling a last-minute vacancy on a departing liner

National Unemployed Workers Movement Hunger March. seen here levying Newcastle. The NUWM march was to highlight the plight of the unemployed workers during the economic depression. 1st February 1934

Walker Naval Yard was besieged by man anxious for work. Some of those who hoped to get a start on the new liner to be constructed there. 15th March 1930

Unemployment march in Newcastle. 29th September 1931

Unemployed marchers including Lancashire mill strikers and communists from London, parading outside Newcastle City Hall, where the Trades Union Congress was in session

A group of happy campers in the camp at Sparty Lea for the wives of Tyneside unemployed. 22nd September 1933

Clock on top of Eagley Mills, which is closing. Eagley, near Bolton, Greater Manchester. Eagley Mills is owned by J P Coats Ltd. and is due to close in June 1972

National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM) Hunger March seen here making its way through Uxbridge. February 1934

A scene of chaos and confusion as firemen turn the hose on a demonstration of unemployed workers organised by the National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM)

Headed by a propaganda "coffin"delegates to the National Unemployed Workers
Headed by a propaganda " coffin" delegates to the National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM), who were in conference at Blackpool march through the streets of Blackpool. 28th January 1939

A scene at 11 o"clock outside the womens Employment Exchange in St Anne Street
A scene at 11 o" clock outside the womens Employment Exchange in St Anne Street, Manchester. 12th February 1947

A few of the 300 Scottish hunger marchers seen here having a meal before setting off again from Manchester for London The Scottish contingent of the national hunger march set off from Glasgow at

Members of the National Unemployed Workers Movement march through Ardwick Green Manchester to protest against the means test. 25th April 1932

Unemployed South Wales Miners seen here in Reading during their hunger march from the Rhondda Valley to London to protest against the Ministry of Health who were limiting relief notes to unemployed

Unemployed South Wales Miners seen here in Reading during their hunger march from the Rhondda Valley to London to protest against the Ministry of Health who were limiting relief notes to unemployed

Unemployed men seen here queueing up at the Labour Exchange in the Midlands. 23rd October 1931

Owing to the depression in the shipbuilding trade, acute distress is being felt in Sunderland, with thousands of willing, workers being unemployed. 16th February 1908

Before 5. 30am, a queue of applicants for 30 jobs at Queens Park Hippodrome
Before 5.30am, a queue of applicants for 30 jobs at Queens Park Hippodrome, Harpurhey, had begun to form and before midday over 1, 000 men and women had lined up. Circa 1935

Auctioneers marked the end of the engineering yard, Clark-Kincaid engine works in Wallsend. The yard closed with the loss of 360 jobs

The voice of Cardiffs unemployed delivers a different sort of Christmas message on this 24ft by 8ft hoarding in Queen Street, Cardiff, 22nd December 1987

New Job Club opens at the West Indian Centre, Spon Street, Coventry, offering a telephone, typewriter and stamps, it has taken six monts to set up, pictured 28th June 1988

Jim Owen and Judy Chessell, 25th July 1980. The teenagers made their wedding plans, but now their hopes for happiness have been dashed, by the curse of Anglesey

Andrew Carlo, student aged 18 years old, from Colchester in Essex, pictured 3rd June 1983. Educated but unable to find a job due to lack of opportunities

Jarrow marchers seen here arriving at Marble Arch on the last leg of the march 31st October 1936

Jarrow marchers seen here arriving at Marble Arch on the last leg of the march 31st October 1936

A section of the huge crowd that gathered to hear the speakers at the Jarrow marchers demonstration in Hyde Park

Former DJ Simon Dee seen here leaving the employment exchange after turning down a job offer to work as a frozen foods salesman. December 1970

Unemployed miners pictured queuing at the dole at Rhos employment exchange after the closing down of one of the mines May 1970

A National Unemployment demonstration showing the procession moving along the Embankment towards Hyde Park, London. 5th February 1933

Liverpool Youth seen here waiting outside the Un-Employment Exchange. August 1962 P013264

Commissionaires (out of work actor) and actresses. November 1952 C5787-001

Mrs Bessie Braddock MP Seen here visiting one of the slum areas in Liverpool Woman Member of Parliament Poverty June 1962

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