SVA General Strike Exhibition Feedback
250 visitors to the exhibition. 50 at the performance. ‘I have lived in Stroud all my life and never knew anything about this. Thank you. And great to see Howard beard’s name here. Well done.’ ‘Lest we forget! Our history. Our future.’ ‘Nicely...
The GWR and the General Strike Swindon to Cheltenham Overview
The Company’s view, and Sir Felix Pole’s, with a Paddington ASLEF replyFollowed by a narrative of the strike in our region https://radicalstroud.co.uk/1926-with-nock-and-potts-on-the-gwr/ The next link is similar to the above to begin with but has different...
A Swindon General Strike Walking Guide
Introduction This guide for a walk through the General Strike in Swindon will be half-way between a conventional guide for a walk (turn left then right for the bus station sort of thing) and a guide for a psychogeographical ramble. ‘What do you mean by that?’ I hear...
Stroud General Strike Walking and Writing Guide
Introduction This guide for a walk through the General Strike in Stroud will be half-way between a conventional guide for a walk (turn left then right for the bus station sort of thing) and a guide for a psychogeographical ramble. ‘What do you mean by that?’ I hear...
A Jolly Dystopian Ramble to the Oasis
It felt like textbook psychogeography: Walking in a straight line along the old North Wilts Canal, In a ‘playful wandering exploration’, Reimagining the railway works and the seemingly endless sidings, Remembering where I used to train-spot and play football,...
The Forest of Dean and the General Strike and the GWR
I popped in the Centenary Lounge at Stroud Station Before catching the train to Gloucester for Lydney: I was on the scent of the industrial Dean In 1926 and the Great Western Railway, And, therefore, studied the GWR map From 1923 up there on the wall, With more care...