| Description | These transcripts are of recordings made in Woolley, Yorkshire on 08/01/1974.
Tape 125 provides an insight to relations between pickets and police at 'Saltley Gate', and also to relations between pickets and local people. Racist comments are included concerning a strike breaking lorry driver. Miners' attitudes towards violence on the picket line are recorded, as is the avoidance of widespread violence in the dispute at 'Saltley Gate'.
An assessment is included that the intervention of Les Hopfield, MP helped to shut 'Saltley Gate' as well as the miners and factory workers.
Tape 126 considers working conditions at Woolley Colliery, and reference is made to pneumonicosis [a work induced respiratory disease affecting miners]. Perceived failings of the National Coal Board's management are noted.
Feelings of miners' despondency about the predicted outcome of 'Saltley Gate' are recorded, as is the euphoria felt by pickets as Birmingham factory workers marched to their support on 10/02/1972. |
| AdminHistory | This is the twenty seventh of a series of 35 envelopes of spare actuality material for this production. However, not all envelopes contained material at the time of cataloguing. |