Date:1926
Description:Cheadle miners waiting to go into Barclays Bank on High Street to draw unemployment pay during the strikes of 1926. Barclays Bank stood on the corner of High Street and Cross Street. The building still stands and is now (March 2023) occupied by Abode Estate Agents. Behind can be see the large wrought iron sign for the Wheatsheaf Hotel, a grade II listed building, originally known as the George Inn. The Wheatsheaf closed in 2006 and later reopened as a J. D. Wetherspoon’s public house. British industry stopped on 4th May, 1926 when between 3 and 4 million workers obeyed their Trade Unions and stopped work when a General Strike was declared in sympathy with the miners. Mine owners wanted the colliers to work longer hours for less pay. The miners themselves wanted a national basic wage, seven hours work per day and the pits to be re-nationalised, as they had been during World War I. It lasted for seven months and the miners returned to district wage settlements, and an increase in working hours.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
Looking down Cross Street towards St Giles Roman Catholic Church with the 17th century ...
This postcard scene shows a presentation being made to Sergeant William Cooper D.C.M. ...
This postcard view looks north-east along the High Street in Cheadle. On the right ...
The spire of St Giles Roman Catholic Church has prominence in this aerial view of ...
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