The Tyldesley Miners' Association represented coal miners in parts of Lancashire, in England. The union was established in 1874, as a split from the Wigan...
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Mosley Common in 1968. Tyldesley Miners' Association, established in 1862, at the instigation of Robert Isherwood, built the Miner's Hall in 1893 and the...
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The Wigan Miners' Association represented coal miners in parts of Lancashire, in England. The union was established in 1862, as the Wigan Miners' Provident...
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strikes were unsustainable as the miners had no organisation or finances to back them. The first miners' association was the Brotherly Union Society formed...
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building Tyldesley Miners' Hall which cost £2,500 in 1893. A Liberal in politics, he was a member of the Tyldesley Local Board, a councillor for Tyldesley Urban...
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1926 United Kingdom general strike (redirect from UK miners' strike (1926))
strike, with many of those who were not miners and not directly affected striking to support the locked-out miners. The government was well prepared, and...
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Robert Isherwood, born in Tyldesley in 1845, was the local miners' agent and treasurer of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation between 1881 and...
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in November 1889, the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) was formed. Ben Pickard of the Yorkshire Miners' Association was elected president and...
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Tyldesley Miners' Welfare Club at Gin Pit is the venue for several sporting groups including Astley and Tyldesley Football Club, Astley and Tyldesley...
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Solidarity Federation (category International Workers' Association)
2006, p. 53; Franks 2009, p. 1. Barberis, McHugh & Tyldesley 2000, p. 168. Barberis, McHugh & Tyldesley 2000, p. 168; Franks 2006, p. 53; Franks 2009, p...
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