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

Tuesday 4 May 1926

General strike.

Notes

Grandad noted the onset of the general strike. This was in solidarity with the miners who had been on strike since the previous Friday, see Chapter 25.

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

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