Drew Family Diaries

Drew Family Diaries provides details of the Drew and Parkin families by providing notes on diaries kept by Sheila Drew nee Parkin and her father Charles Gordon Parkin

Friday 30 April 1926

Miners strike.

Notes

Grandad noted that there was a miners’ strike. This was in protest at plans to cut their wages and, as a result, miners were locked out. This led to the general strike a few days later, see Chapter 25.

North East workers demonstrating during the General Strike of 1926 – image licenced for re-use from Alamy

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