Priory Estate Anti-Poll Tax Union, DSS, Cavendish House, Dudley
D-EXP/P/R75/96 4 Apr 1991 Wolverhampton Archives
Protestors padlocked themselves to chairs in protest at having their benefits docked. The photograph shows Malcolm Platchford.
D-EXP/P/R75/96 4 Apr 1991 Wolverhampton Archives
Protestors padlocked themselves to chairs in protest at having their benefits docked. The photograph shows Malcolm Platchford.
D-EXP/P/W103/1 10 Nov 1983 Wolverhampton Archives
Students were protesting because the college was under threat, with a possibility that it was to be turned into a police training centre. Tommy Sheppard is quoted, and the National Union of Students and the National Advisory Board for Higher Education are
D-EXP/P/I32/412 25 Jul 1980 Wolverhampton Archives
MPs (from left) Leslie Huckfield, Peter Snape, John Sever, Jeff Rooker and Peter Archer headed a march of sacked workers, led by Irish piper Tom Flynn, with the backing of the Transport and General Workers Union.
D-EXP/P/I31/74 6 Feb 1979 Wolverhampton Archives
March from the factory to the Civic Centre for a mass meeting, following the threat of redundancy and factory closure. Kevin O’Leary is quoted, and Jim Hesom, the Transport and General Workers’ Union, Bill Holmes and the ASTMS are mentioned.
D-EXP/P/I43/45 5 Jun 1989 Wolverhampton Archives
The firm announced record profits and blamed public protests for blocking progress towards solving environmental problems. Malcolm Wood is quoted. The photograph shows survivors from the Union Carbide chemical plant tragedy in Bhopal, India, joining prote