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...
Why did I break the General Strike
“Why did I break the strike and go into work?” you ask me. Because I’m a Company man, a GWR man, A man who thinks that Sir Felix Pole sometimes knows best, A man who has grandchildren to feed and clothe, A man who needs the wage and can’t risk losing his job...
Personal Memories of Decades of Industrial Struggle
I come from a small town in North West Wales, called Blaenau Ffestiniog. It’s a very Welsh place. In the last census about 5% only spoke Welsh and around 80% speak, read and write in Welsh. Over a century ago most of my family are recorded in every census as only...