31-07-1989 - Picketing during the national dock strike Bristol, National Dock Labour Scheme abolished 1989 © John Harris

31-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike picket, Liverpool dockers trying to pursuade Southhampton dockerworkers not to return to work despite threats of the sack if they do not do so. © John Harris

31-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike picket, Liverpool dockers trying to pursuade Southhampton dockerworkers not to return to work despite threats of the sack if they do not do so. © John Harris

19-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike. Ron Todd visiting TGWU dockworkers picket line, strike against the abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme, Bristol Docks, Avonmouth. Ford Grain threatening to... © John Harris

19-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike. Ron Todd visiting TGWU dockworkers picket line, strike against the abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme, Bristol Docks, Avonmouth. Ford Grain threatening to... © John Harris

17-07-1989 - Strike against the abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme, Bristol Docks, Avonmouth. TGWU dockworkers picket line, Ford Grain are threatening to sack the strikers if they do not return to work © John Harris

17-07-1989 - Strike against the abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme, Bristol Docks, Avonmouth. TGWU dockworkers picket line, Ford Grain are threatening to sack the strikers if they do not return to work © John Harris

13-07-1989 - Picketing national dock strike by TGWU members. Tilbury Docks London. Abolition of the National Dock Labour Scheme 1989 © John Harris

11-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike. Ron Todd visiting TGWU picket. Tilbury Docks, Essex dockworkers picket line © John Harris

11-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike picket, Tilbury Docks, Essex © John Harris

11-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike picket, Tilbury Docks, Essex © John Harris

06-07-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike. Ron Todd visiting TGWU dockworkers picket line, Bristol Docks, Avonmouth. © John Harris

29-06-1989 - John Connolly (Docks) TGWU BDC Conference, Brighton, 1989 © John Harris

18-06-1989 - Idle container carriers, dock strike Tilbury Docks London, TGWU members on strike at Tilbury Docks London, one of the last to carry a large volume of imports and exports, Abolition of the National Doc... © John Harris

18-06-1989 - Idle cranes during dock strike, Tilbury Docks London, one of the last to carry a large volume of imports and exports, Abolition of the National Dock Labour Scheme © John Harris

18-06-1989 - Idle container carriers, dock strike Tilbury Docks London, TGWU members on strike at Tilbury Docks London, one of the last to carry a large volume of imports and exports, Abolition of the National Doc... © John Harris

14-04-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme. Dockers lobbying TGWU executive for strike action against plans abolish the Dock Labour Scheme, Transport House, London © John Harris

14-04-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme. Dockers lobbying TGWU executive for strike action against plans abolish the Dock Labour Scheme, Transport House, London © John Harris

09-04-1989 - Strike against the abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme. Silent Port of Liverpool docks © John Harris

09-04-1989 - Idle and silent cranes, dock strike. Port of Liverpool Docks 1989. TGWU strike against the abolition of the National Dock Labour Scheme © John Harris

07-04-1989 - Abolition of the Dock Labour Scheme strike, Cranes, shipping and grain silos Avonmouth docks Bristol © John Harris

10-07-1984 - Police roadblock M18 to stop striking dockers 1984. Police vehicles blocking the motorway to prevent pickets getting to Immingham docks to picket during the dock strike. The strike was called by the T... © John Harris

10-07-1984 - Striking dockers picketing in the rain Hull 1984 Strike at King George Dock. The strike was called by the TGWU national docks committee after British Steel had used workers who were not registered doc... © John Harris

10-07-1984 - Striking dockers picketing in the rain Hull 1984 Strike at King George Dock. The strike was called by the TGWU national docks committee after British Steel had used workers who were not registered doc... © John Harris

10-07-1984 - Striking dockers picketing Immingham docks, 1984. The strike was called by the TGWU national docks committee after British Steel had used workers who were not registered dockers to unload iron ore at... © John Harris

16-08-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Anger outside Transport House as dockers learn that the strike is to be called off with a compromise settlement based on the Jones-Aldington agreement. 16.8 1972. © Martin Mayer

14-08-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Vic Turner, one of the jailed Pentonville 5 dockers and a leading shop steward on the Royal Group of Docks, speaking at a mass metting at the Royals © Martin Mayer

14-08-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Vic Turner, one of the Pentonville 5 and one of the leading shop stewards in the Royal Docks. © Martin Mayer

14-08-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Bernie Steer, one of the Pentonville 5 jailed dockers, addresses a mass meeting of the Royal Group of Docks a month before his arrest. 15.6.1972. © Peter Arkell

14-08-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Bernie Steer, one of the jailed Pentonville 5 dockers, and a leading TGWU shop steward on the Royal Group of Docks in East London. 14.8.1972. © Peter Arkell

09-08-1972 - Dock strike. Pickets and Police, Neap House Wharf, near Scunthorpe Lincolnshire, which was being used by government to try to bypass the strike, struggling with Police as pickets attempt to stop the u... © Martin Mayer

09-08-1972 - Dock strike. Pickets and Police, Neap House Wharf, near Scunthorpe Lincolnshire, which was being used by government to try to bypass the strike, struggling with Police as pickets attempt to stop the u... © Martin Mayer

09-08-1972 - Dock strike. Pickets and Police, Neap House Wharf, near Scunthorpe Lincolnshire, which was being used by government to try to bypass the strike, struggling with Police as pickets attempt to stop the u... © Martin Mayer

27-07-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Lobby of the Docks Delegates meeting at Transport House to demand a national dock strike. The meeting was held the day after the Pentonville 5 were released from prison. Dockers tur... © Peter Arkell

27-07-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Lobby of the Docks Delegates meeting at Transport House to demand a national dock strike. The meeting was held the day after the Pentonville 5 were released from prison. Vic Turner,... © Peter Arkell

27-07-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Lobby of the Docks Delegates meeting at Transport House to demand a national dock strike and a rejection of the Jack Jones Lord Aldington compromise. The meeting was held the day af... © Peter Arkell

27-07-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Lobby of the Docks Delegates meeting at Transport House to demand a national dock strike and a rejection of the Jack Jones-Lord Aldington comrpomise. The meeting was held the day af... © Peter Arkell

26-07-1972 - Teachers join the docks strike 1972. trades union members from all over the country join the growing day and night demonstration outside Pentonville jail where the Pentonville 5 dockers are held, to d... © Peter Arkell

25-07-1972 - By the 4th day after the jailing of the Pentonville 5, crowds outside the jail demanding their release had swelled to many thousands, and the TUC had set the day for a 1-day general strike. Banner of... © Peter Arkell

25-07-1972 - A huge march of trade union members behind the London docks shop stewards committee banner with its slogan Arise ye Workers, heading for Pentonville Prison where the The Pentonville 5 were being held © Peter Arkell

25-07-1972 - Docker Vic Turner awaiting arrest, Vic Turner can be seen under the R of workers in the banner. © Peter Arkell

23-07-1972 - Docks Crisis 1972. Fleet Street print workers walk out in support of the demand to free the jailed Pentonville 5 dockers, and make their way to Pentonville jail. The national papers do not appear. In... © Peter Arkell

23-07-1972 - Docks Crisis 1972. Fleet Street print workers walk out in support of the demand to free the jailed Pentonville 5 dockers, and make their way to Pentonville jail. The national papers do not appear. In... © Peter Arkell

23-07-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Fleet Street print workers walk out in support of the demand to free the jailed Pentonville 5 dockers. The national papers do not appear. Many of the printers join the throng at Pen... © NLA

21-07-1972 - Conny Clancy being arrested while picketing Midland Cold Store, East London for for contempt of court for picketing after the Vestey Group obtained an injunction. © Peter Arkell

21-07-1972 - Dock strike 1972. Tony Merrick, Conny Clancy and Derek Watkins were arrested while picketing Midland Cold Store, East London for for contempt of court for picketing after the Vestey Group obtained an... © Peter Arkell

20-07-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Dockers picketing the Midland Cold Store, in Stratford, East London, claiming that the workers there should be registered dockers. Five dockers, the Pentonville 5, were arrested the... © Peter Arkell

20-07-1972 - Two private detectives and their lawyer (on right) enter the new National Industrial Relations Court (NIRC) to give evidence against the 5 dockers. They identified the dockers as taking part in unlawf... © Peter Arkell

12-07-1972 - Outside the Midland Cold Store before the arrest of the Pentonville 5, two pickets with opposite messages, a docker on the left and a Cold Store worker counter-picket on the right. East London © Peter Arkell

10-07-1972 - Vic Turner speaking to a mass meeting of dockers © Peter Arkell

10-07-1972 - Docker Vic Turner © Peter Arkell

19-06-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Mass meeting of all London dockers at Tower Hill, in the days before the arrest of the Pentonville 5. The famous banner of the Royal Group of docks, with the invocation "Arise Ye Wo... © Peter Arkell

16-06-1972 - Docks strike 1972. Dockers at the West India Docks in East London vote to support the secondary picketing of cold stores in defiance of the National Industrial Relations Court. Five dockers, The Pento... © Peter Arkell

15-06-1972 - Docker Vic Turner awaiting arrest, Vic Turner can be seen under the R of workers in the banner. © Peter Arkell

15-06-1972 - Docker Vic Turner awaiting arrest, Vic Turner can be seen under the R of workers in the banner. © Martin Mayer

15-06-1972 - Dock strike. Celebrations as Pentonville Five released from prison. Vic Turner and and Bernie Steer are carried on the sholders of supporters after being released from jail to avoid a general strike.... © Peter Arkell

19-10-1967 - Docks strike 1967. Dockers voting at a mass meeting outside Royal Docks London © NLA

26-09-1967 - Jack Dash speaking mass meeting, Docks strike. Royal Docks, London © NLA

26-09-1967 - Jack Dash speaking, dock strike mass meeting Royal Docks, London © NLA

19-09-1967 - Docks strike 1967. Dockers at a Mass meeting London © NLA