1911 Railway Strike fatalities plaque, Llanelli
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1911 Railway Strike fatalities plaque, Llanelli
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 8 Apr 2012
The Llanelli Community Heritage blue plaque is on the side of the Queen Victoria Road bridge across railway lines. It records that on Saturday August 19th, 1911 during a railway strike, a train was stopped by strikers on the track below. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2945466 Two bystanders were shot and killed by troops. It was the last time troops on the British mainland fired on workers during an industrial dispute. The strike, the first national railway strike in the UK, occurred during a long period of industrial unrest known as the Great Unrest of 1910 to 1914.
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