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Letter:<strong> Peter Overstall</strong> on his great-grandfather’s activism with regard to the right to roam in 1873 ....

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Bitter industrial dispute saw troops on streets of Bolton


Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history
It was the most significant industrial conflict in Bolton’s history, was immortalised in a novel and led to major changes in the town’s politics.
The Great Engineers’ Strike of 1887 was no ordinary trade dispute but was marked by a bitterness and violence seldom seen in British industrial relations.
The strike involved the ‘aristocracy’ of the Bolton labour movement – the skilled engineers whose expertise was in demand across the world. By the standards of the day they were well-paid and they enjoyed an orderly system of wage bargaining, between their own unions – mostly the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) - and the Iron Trades Employers Association. ....

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How Swindon celebrated the wedding of Prince Philip and Her Majesty the Queen


With the big day on Thursday, November 20, partying in Swindon began earlier that week.
The local branch of the International Sequence Dance Circle held a ball at the Co-operative Hall in East Street where Princess Elizabeth’s dance, the Royal Minuet, was on the programme. And guests at the Coate Amateur Swimming Club Wedding Eve celebration paid six shillings to dance the night away to Johnnie Stiles and his Band at the Town Hall.
Although the town had no official entertainment, numerous street parties had been organised and Swindon schoolchildren enjoyed a day off school. At Blunsdon more than 150 children aged three to 15 attended a party at the British Legion Hall while Wroughton Conservatives held a dance in the Ellendune Hall. ....

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