When was there a strike in RL?

I was refering to what caused the people of wigan to be known as pie eaters.

and what is that pyeman? (i love social history)

They went back to work first during a miner's strike in the 1920's(I think) and therefore ate humble pie.

General Stike (Inc Miners) 1926

Nice one. I consider my self educated now!

Sons of scabs mate, all ways will be, cant be trusted (still at it when fiddling the salary cap

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Its not as easy to say that now. The recent success of leeds, and our general decline(thanks to our clueless b.o.d's,which only recently is being sorted out) means we are seeing more rhinos shirts in the area and more car stickers too. You know what kids are like they want to be associated with winners.

If we fail in our license application we could lose a generation of young fans to the big city neighbours,and end up like the likes of Hunslet,Dewsbury,Batley & Keighley,fighting a losing battle for hearts & minds.

So ignore my previous post about not caring who wins tonight, im hoping for a Wigan win,then a Saints win in the final

'starved' back to work is what most historical documents say.

Well my old man has done many things that have made me proud. He decided to become a nurse at forty! But the thing I am proudest of is he stayed out for the full year during the miners strike, and between him and my Mum they managed to provide for the family. He still jokes that those who went back to work got thirty grand and he got a bloody badge. I recon he still would not swap that badge for thirty grand of Maggies money. When someone decides to become a scab, that sort of shabite sticks for generations.

I got one of those mate, Glasshoughton loyalty badge, and proud of it too

Ditto from allerton bywater and we had a load of scabs there, when we marched back there were more looking on jealously than behind the banner, I thought fook this i arent working with them and went on the sick on the wednesday.

Ah, a fellow Marshman.



That reminds me of my little pit strike story. I was only about 9 and often helped at my dads mates allotment. One day i was told to go kill a few chickens for t' lads on t' picket. I mistakenly thought he said go kill [iall[/i the chickens. About half an hour later my old man came looking for me to see where the hell i was and found me chasing the last of about 50 chickens, most dead, some alive and a few still running around with broken necks. (watching a chicken run around with a broken neck is quite amusing for a 9 year old, and still weird as feck thinking back to it lol)

Lock Laner actually but did 14 years at allerton bywater colliery, they should knock down those idiotic houses and reopen the pit?

I agree. If only so i could climb those floodlights again and play in t'pit yard. lol. The houses are aweful imo, someone with silly ideas again designing stuff that shouldn't be there. Plus they go and call it Beeston street/lane when no one has ever had any ties with Leeds at all. Seems like they only want to turn Allerton into a refuge for folk from Leeds, i hardly know anyone in the village any more.

I hear 2 cas tigers share a house there.

I am not sure who to shout support for at the TV.

Stains or Wigan?







Any advice would be helpful

def not for the scabs thats for sure

I think I heard somewhere that the street names are mining-related and that one's like Beeston/Middleton are named after seams?

Re your chicken story, you've never struck me as being a budding psychopath but then again anti-social and potentially homicidal behaviour would not be recognised as abnormal by most of us Allertoners.....especially when directed at migrant loiners.

Chickens, Loiners......gimme a big stick they're all the same to me! lol


Just kidding, i wouldn't neck every single loiner!

You need one to tell the tale....