The Preston Lock-Out Illustrated - The Skilled Hands or Lock-Outs and Recruiting Sergeant

The Preston Lock-Out Illustrated - The Skilled Hands or Lock-Outs and Recruiting Sergeant
The Preston Lock-Out Illustrated - The Skilled Hands or Lock-Outs and Recruiting Sergeant
The Preston Lock-Out Illustrated - The Skilled Hands or Lock-Outs and Recruiting Sergeant
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The Preston Lock-Out Illustrated - The Skilled Hands or Lock-Outs and Recruiting Sergeant
Place
Preston
General notes
These cartoons are from the Lancashire Evening Post collection (ref DDPR/138/87B) held at Lancashire Archives. They were owned and compiled by Henry Ashworth, a cotton master and founder of the Anti-Corn Law League and refer to the Preston Lock-Out or strike of 1853/54.

This illustration was used in a project to mark the Bi-Centenary of Charles Dickens birth in 2012. Charles Dickens visited Preston at that time and commented on the Preston Lock-Out in his magazine Household Worlds on 11th February 1854. The strike centered on workers demand to have wages restored to previous levels after a 10-20% cut.

The full text of the titles below the images is "The Skilled Hands or Lock-Outs and Recruiting Sergeant at B's Factory in North Road"
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c.1854
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