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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

1972: Official national strike. This ended in success after the Battle of Saltley Gate, where the miners' pickets were supported by solidarity strikes...

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...