The Forest of Dean, the General Strike and Lockout
What’s in a Name? I sing you a song of collieries, Whose picturesque toponyms Cloak any subterranean pandemonium With the poetry of a landscape. I sing you a song of the Forest of Dean, And its 44 pits and 6,000 miners In the year of the General Strike; I sing you a...
Stroud and the 1926 General Strike
In 1926, ‘Stroud and District’ comprised both an urban-industrial and a rural-agricultural landscape, stretching along and through five valleys and hillsides, with fast flowing streams and picturesque villages; the 1921 census indicated some 66,000 persons. Those...
A Stroud Supermarket General Strike Centenary Ramble
It’s easy to forget that a walk around our local supermarkets Can take you back in a glance to the early twentieth century: Names like Coronation Road, King’s Road, Queen’s Road, With the red brick villas lining the streets: Their soot mixed with mortar like a chequer...
Beatrice Webb and the General Strike
Beatrice Webb’s May 1926 Diary (a small selection) The net impression left on my mind is that the General Strike will turn out not to be a revolution of any sort but a batch of compulsory Bank Holidays without any opportunity for recreation and a lot of dreary walking...
The Bespectacled Historian and the Blue Plaques
The bespectacled historian has had a good idea. Stuart (for it is he) said, “Why don’t we have a train ride and a bus ride and a walk and conjoin the Rev Awdry blue plaques at Rodborough and Box?” Everyone said it was a great notion and so they made a plan. Some would...
General Strike Centenary Schedule
General Strike Centenary Schedule Exhibition about the General Strike nationally and in Stroud at Stroud Valley Arts April 22-26 Performance at SVA Wednesday 22nd Stuart has written an account of the General Strike in Stroud. This will be published by the Bristol...