• Saltley is an inner-city area of Birmingham, England, east of the city centre. The area is part of the Washwood Heath ward, and was previously part of...
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  • The Battle of Saltley Gate was the mass picketing of a fuel storage depot in Birmingham, England, in February 1972 during a national miners' strike. When...
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    St Peter's College, Saltley was a teacher training establishment located in Saltley, Birmingham, England. Today the former college building has now been...
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  • Saltley Academy is a mixed secondary school located in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Saltley Grammar School...
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    Saltley TMD was a traction maintenance depot located in Saltley, Birmingham, England. The depot was situated on the east side of the line between Birmingham...
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    was subsequently revised to twelve ROCs with responsibilities at two (Saltley and Ashford) being transferred to other ROCs (Rugby and Gillingham respectively)...
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    officially a division of Saltley. Alum Rock includes the connecting streets of the 3 km Alum Rock Road beginning at Saltley Gate and ending at Railway...
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  • Samuel Leakey as Christopher Wilde Simon Farnaby as Lord Saltley Sindhu Vee as Lady Saltley Tom Meeten as Bill the Blade Neil Edmond as Poorly Martin...
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  • concessions from the Coal Board came more than a week after the Battle of Saltley Gate, when around 2,000 NUM pickets descended on a coke works in Birmingham...
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    manufacturer of railway carriages, locomotives and railway wagons, based in Saltley, and subsequently Washwood Heath, in Birmingham. The company was purchased...
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    The Saltley handaxe is a quartzite hand axe found in the gravels of the valley of the River Rea in the Saltley area of Birmingham, England in 1890. Believed...
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    proved successful at the Battle of Saltley Gate in Saltley, Birmingham, during the 1972 miners' strike. At Saltley Coke Works, 30,000 pickets and supporters...
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    Saltley railway station was a railway station in Saltley, Birmingham, England, opened by the Midland Railway in 1854 and rebuilt in 1899. Consisting of...
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    densely covered by oak in a large number of districts such as Moseley, Saltley, Yardley, Stirchley and Hockley. These places, with names ending in "-ley"...
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    St Saviour's Church, Saltley is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Birmingham. The foundation stone was laid on Tuesday 24 October...
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  • Rednal Ridgacre Rotton Park Roughley Rubery (Mostly in Worcestershire) Saltley Sarehole Selly Oak Selly Park Shard End Sheldon Shenley Fields Shenley...
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    role in the miners' strike of 1972 and was involved in the mass picket at Saltley Gate in Birmingham. Scargill was a leader of the unofficial strike in 1969...
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    poisoning at the age of 53. Barnes was born at 219 Great Lister Street, Saltley, Birmingham, England. The son of a butcher, Barnes became interested in...
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    the police were overwhelmed by the number of pickets at the Battle of Saltley Gate.: 101  Many families in South Yorkshire complained that the police...
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  • School – all run by the Park View Educational Trust – Oldknow Academy and Saltley School were placed in special measures after inspectors found systemic...
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  • and a daughter. In the 1990s, Roach owned and co-managed a scrapyard in Saltley, Birmingham. He also ran a gym on Gravelly Hill North, Erdington, in North-East...
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  • City of Birmingham Stadium was a proposed multi-purpose stadium in the Saltley area of Birmingham, England, originally for Warwickshire County Cricket...
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  • The Saltley Gate Peace Group, is an inner city interfaith organisation based in Birmingham, England. The Saltley Gate Peace Group (SGPG) was initially...
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    concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham, and taught violin at St Philip's Grammar School, Birmingham...
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  • C. Higham provides evidence that such places as Salter Street, London, Saltley, Salterford, and even Salt Hill, UK derive their names from these salters...
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    Springfield Sparkhill, Sparkrbook, Small Heath, Alum Rock, Ward End, Saltley, Bordesley Green, Washwood Heath, Stechford (2,023), Erdington, Bromford...
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    expansion of the County Borough of Birmingham in 1911, and a further part, Saltley was added in 1911. Old buildings which became popular within Aston included...
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    and homes of any of the latter persons. For example, at the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972 in England, striking miners picketed a coke works in Birmingham...
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  • Maureen Jennings (category People educated at Saltley Grammar School)
    Maureen Jennings was born and grew up in Birmingham, England. She attended Saltley Grammar School. Jennings grew up knowing little of her father, who was...
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  • found shot to death the next day in the yard of a deserted factory in the Saltley area of Birmingham, apparently after having been lured there. A reopening...
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