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Ref NoMS 1611/B/9/40
TitleSaltley Gate Actuality 132 [Miner's Wife & NUM Edlington]
LevelFile
Date1970s
DescriptionThis transcript records an interview with the wife of a Yorkshire miner arrested whilst on picket duty at 'Saltley Gate'. Her reaction to seeing his arrest on Television news is given, together with her views about picketing, the miners' cause and the role of the media [in reporting the 1972 and the 1974 strike].

Also recorded is an interview with Ian Ferguson, Branch Secreatry of the NUM Edlington Branch. This branch covered Yorkshire Main Colliery which was at this time Britain's largest colliery. He describes his move from the Frances Colliery, Fife to Yorkshire Main in 1963, under the [NCB] interdivisional transfer scheme.

This interview is continued on transcripts 133 & 134.
Extent1
FormatEnvelope
Access StatusOpen
AdminHistoryThis is the thirty first of a series of 35 envelopes of spare actuality material for this production. However, not all envelopes contained material at the time of cataloguing. This envelope is marked 'singles'.
LanguageEnglish
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