Black plaque № 70762

Braunston, West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

1923 Braunston Canal Strike. Around this wharf in August 1923 Brunston's community of boat families came out on strike. Canal employers Fellows Morton and Clayton, based here at Braunston, had told the boat families that they would be reducing their already meagre pay-packets once more. Between fift

y and sixty striking boat families gathered here at Braunston blocking the canal. The strike, to fight the wage cuts and for the right to join a union, was to last for fourteen weeks. It was one of th

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