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#829 Sheila Memories of the General Strike of 1926

Sheila

I can remember the general strike of 1926. I was three. I was at a soup kitchen at the Methodist church in our village near Worksop. The food was for the miners. My father died a year later, but I can remember he was there.

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The author, who was three at the time, remembers being at a soup kitchen with their father during the general strike of 1926, where food was being provided for miners.