| Description | Minnie Broadhead, from Birmingham, speaks about her memories of the General Strike and community life during the 1920s. She describes types of housing and people she remembers on Great Francis Street, the poverty in the area and hardships through illness and unemployment after First World War, talks about difficulties for men who had been through the First World War, who got no financial or emotional assistance on their return, hunger, illness and hardship in 'England fit for heroes', class solidarity of working men and women during General Strike, malnutrition of children and young people, treatment of poor in Dudley Road workhouse, talks about memories of the first Labour councillor in Birmingham (tracks 1-7)
Interviewer is not Clive Barker
Total: 45.12 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0689180 |