"Out of Work" in 1921

[california dreamin]

The miners did not get a chance to strike. They were 'locked out' of the pits on 1st Apr 1921 when the Miners Federation did not agree to terms.  The  Government put in place the 'Emergency Powers Act' drafting in soldiers.  The Government regarded this dispute so significant it even brought soldiers back from Ireland.

CD

[Top-of-the-hill]

  I was quoting from the Dover Museum website, (which could be more clearly written). It reads as if this only applied to one pit.

 "In 1920, the Emergency Powers Bill temporarily increased wages for six months. The result of this was reduced pay for miners and thus in 1921 the Snowdown workers went on strike and the company went into receivership."

[Viktoria]

Many skilled workmen were “ laid off “the vacancies filled by apprentices who in turn got their indentures so a full wage but were then also laid off and another set of low paid apprentices were employed,so skilled workmen were idle through no fault if their own.
It was iniquitous .
Youngsters today don’t know they are born.
Not their fault really but that period of history needs to be taught even today.
It was my parents’ real memories and they passed it on to us, as did my
in laws.
Viktoria.

[Andrew Tarr]

There must have been money made available into the 1930s, for road improvements. Good pieces of road we now take for granted which were there before we were born.

I think the switchback A-roads linking some of the higher valleys in the south Wales coalfield were built in that period - there were no connections before then, unless you count the railway tunnels.  What we call the Refinery Road at Stanlow near Ellesmere Port was built in the mid-30s, but I suspect that was for the new refinery,  My in-laws used to drive it when it was new.  Before then there were just a few country lanes, now the M56 parallels it.  The Northwich by-pass is another.

[Viktoria]

The road building was very common in Ireland in the Great Famine especially.
It could not be allowed that unemployed people could get money or food for nothing so useless roads were made from nowhere to nowhere ,employing starving people in heavy manual labour , whilst grain was exported out of Ireland to The Continent thanks to The Corn Laws.
Lord Trevellian!!!
Peterloo was really a call for  the repeal of those corn laws and The  Chartists
joined in to get proportional representation ,Manchester a fast growing city had no MP. Yet Old Sarum in Wiltshire I think with no population had two MPs !!!

I am running out of exclamation marks .
Gosh how times have changed.

Viktoria.

[antiquesam]

I believe the whole of Southsea promenade was built and sea defences added in order to provide work imp the '20s and I came across an estate of smallholdings set up for families from the north.

[Viktoria]

Well they were of use,antiquesam weren’t’t they, some pride for the workers -but a road with no real starting place and no end anywhere useful,how soul destroying for people  already totally demolished .

Gosh w are lucky really in many ways .

Viktoria.

[Rena]

Roads and bridges that required a person to pay a Toll was termed a "turnpike".

When my late OH and I travelled home by road in the 1970s we had to pay two pence to cross the bridge at Selby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_toll_bri

[MollyC]

The turnpike through Selby ran from Doncaster to York and was one of the last to be built in Yorkshire, around 1830 I think.  It passes over some very wet ground south of Selby and connects villages which were isolated on earlier maps.  The turnpikes were operated by private trusts until about 1870 when they passed to local authorities, which became responsible for road improvements and the employment which occurred during the Depression.  However some bridges remained in private hands, and some recent bridges have been financed by tolls.