Hi Keith
As Maurice Chevalier used to say "I remember it well". I picketed with
Wearmouth Colliery lodge during the strike and we covered most of the
Durham area.
I was told of the incident at the time and as far as I remember it was at
either Hartlepool Power Station or Philadelphia Workshops but have no solid
evidence for this.
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Keith Ramsey
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I hope Peter will let me get away with this...
Yesterday's "Guardian" carried an article on the comedian Linda Smith which
mentions a story that she liked to tell about
"... the pickets who had built a snowman, only to see a police Land Rover
deliberately smash into it. "Next day they built another snowman, and
exactly the same thing happened. What the police didn't know was they had
built this one round a cast- iron bollard."
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1721232,00.html
A similar story appeared in "The Times" (5 March 1985, p 36), describing
events at Cortonwood, only in this report it was a Range Rover, a concrete
post, and the snowman was wearing a policeman's helmet. The story is
described as "Strike folklore..."
I'm intrigued by the way in which stories can become accepted at true even
if they never happened, but does anyone know if this particular story is
true or not?
Keith Ramsey
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