• 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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    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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  • 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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    Arthur Scargill (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
    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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    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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    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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  • 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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