• 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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  • the Saltley Handaxe, the first paleolithic human artefact to be found in the English Midlands. Saltley Gate Coke Depot was the site of the Battle of Saltley...
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  • 1972 United Kingdom miners' strike (category National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain))
    after the Battle of Saltley Gate, when around 2,000 NUM pickets descended on a coke works in Birmingham and were later joined by thousands of workers from...
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    ISBN 0-7099-2447-X. Press Association (10 February 2012). "Arthur Scargill joins Battle of Saltley Gate 40th anniversary celebration". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2014...
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    the Battle of Orgreave, is generally considered the end of this period. Mass picketing had proved successful at the Battle of Saltley Gate in Saltley, Birmingham...
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    shareholders (sister/allied premises) and homes of any of the latter persons. For example, at the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972 in England, striking miners picketed...
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    Nechells (category Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands)
    of Emergency - The Way We Were: Britain 1970-1974. Allen Lane, 2010, p.121 "R. Kellaway. Re-examining the Battle of Saltley Gate: interpretations of violence...
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  • 1972: Official national strike. This ended in success after the Battle of Saltley Gate, where the miners' pickets were supported by solidarity strikes...
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    of 1972, when the police were overwhelmed by the number of pickets at the Battle of Saltley Gate.: 101  Many families in South Yorkshire complained that...
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    Birmingham Trades Council (category Politics of Birmingham, West Midlands)
    Digbeth, with a huge mural above the canteen area depicting the 1972 Battle of Saltley Gate. 1869: Thomas Green 1870: 1871: H. Giles 1874: 1875: C. R. Bowkett...
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    Derrick Capper (category English recipients of the Queen's Police Medal)
    area of policing. Capper was involved in the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, a confrontation between police and picketing miners in the Saltley area of Birmingham...
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  • 1969 United Kingdom miners' strike (category National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain))
    key role in the 1972 strike, especially through organisation of the Battle of Saltley Gate, and to lead the union through the 1984–5 strike. Routledge...
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    remains relatively densely covered by oak in a large number of districts such as Moseley, Saltley, Yardley, Stirchley and Hockley. These places, with names...
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    B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme for the rationale behind...
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  • ISSN 0002-7162. Retrieved 15 June 2024 – via Research Gate. Fowler; Harle, William; Matthew (2023). "The Furthest Edge of the BBC: Watching Open Door". Raven Row....
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    Small Heath BC gained Deritend ward and lost Duddeston ward (retaining Saltley and Small Heath wards). Birmingham, Sparkbrook BC gained Fox Hollies and...
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    The organisation of the Methodist Church of Great Britain is based on the principle of connexionalism. This means that British Methodism, from its inception...
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    its driver, who left it at the gates of the Harris Street building. There is also a horse-drawn bus and collection of motorbikes. Suspended aeroplanes...
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  • coordinates) This is a list of public art in the City of Birmingham, in the West Midlands county of England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible...
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  • in Birmingham during Ascensiontide annually. A road from Birmingham to Saltley and Castle Bromwich is recorded in a deed. 1260 – Summer Lane, a road leading...
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  • list of windmills in the English county of Warwickshire. 1722 Henry Beighton 1725 Henry Beighton 1731 Samuel & Nathaniel Buck, South-west prospect of Birmingham...
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