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\"\"Gloucester Docks, Sugar and Strife – Tony Conder<\/h2>\n
As an industrial city Gloucester’s industries were hit by the strike in 1926. The dock workers and boatmen of Gloucester played a key role in taking action and suffering in the aftermath.\u00a0The business of the docks pitted powerful conservative forces who made no attempt to recognise the emergency against an almost cheeky gallantry by their striking workforce.<\/div>\n
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A Railway Town and the General Strike: Nine Days in Swindon in May 1926 – Stuart Butler<\/h2>\n

Swindon was a proud GWR town with 14,000 workers \u2018inside\u2019 the railway works\u2019 310 acres. But the GWR \u2018railway servants\u2019 were anything but servile during the General Strike. Hear the fascinating tale of the mock funeral cortege where \u2018coffins\u2019 decorated with weeds for nine strike-breaking footplatemen were symbolically cremated on the municipal rubbish tip. The police even cleared the streets of traffic for the cortege \u2026 But there\u2019s so much more than that to hear about in the unique story of solidarity in Swindon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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