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Shields Gazette
  • 13/01/2025
The time when 200 South Shields students took 'industrial action'
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00:00The 1970s. A time of industrial action and unrest.
00:07But there was one South Shields strike which was different to any other.
00:12200 pupils walked out of the classroom in a row about the cost of having to travel to another school for lessons.
00:21It happened at West Park School in 1974.
00:26And we want to know how it all ended.
00:29Did the pupils have the demands met?
00:32Tell us more by emailing chris.cordner at nationalworld.com

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