Battle of Saltley Gate
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The Battle of Saltley Gate was the mass picketing of a fuel storage depot in Birmingham, England, in February 1972 during a national miners' strike. When the strike began on 9 January 1972, it was generally considered that the miners "could not possibly win." Woodrow Wyatt, writing in the Daily Mirror, said: "Rarely have strikers advanced to the barricades with less enthusiasm or hope of success... The miners have more stacked against them than the Light Brigade in their famous charge." The picketing of the fuel depot – out of which tens of thousands of tons of coke fuel were being distributed nationwide – became a pivotal, and symbolic, event during the strike. Forcing its closure secured victory for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
1972
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Location: 52.4943, -1.8679, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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| area | region | 527 | Kingdom of Mercia | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 910 | Battle of Tettenhall | Vikings, Kingdom of Mercia, battle, Kingdom of Wessex | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1266 | Siege of Kenilworth | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1642 | Battle of Kings Norton | Roundhead, Cavalier, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1643 | Battle of Camp Hill | battle, Roundhead, Cavalier | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1643 | Siege of Lichfield | siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1644 | Battle of Stourbridge Heath | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1644 | Battle of Tipton Green | Cavalier, Roundhead, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1940 | Coventry Blitz | United Kingdom, Nazi Germany, airstrike | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1940 | Birmingham Blitz | United Kingdom, Nazi Germany, aerial bombing of a city | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1972 | Battle of Saltley Gate | battle | Wikidata |
| organisation | arms industry | 1861 | Birmingham Small Arms Company | automotive industry, arms industry, public limited company, vehicle construction, manufacture of weapons and ammunition, manufacture of metal forming machinery, Manufacture of motorcycles, machinery industry and plant construction | Wikidata |
| site | bunker | Birmingham Regional War Room | bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Drakelow Tunnels | military museum, factory, tunnel, bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Solihull Borough Emergency Centre | civil defense center, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Stoneleigh Park Anti-Aircraft Operations Room | Royal Air Force, bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | West Midlands Civil Defence Bunker | civil defense center, West Midlands County Council | Wikidata | |
| site | bunker | Wylde Green Anti-Aircraft Operations Room | Royal Air Force, bunker | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | Caludon Castle | castle, archaeological site | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | Cannock Castle Ring | castle | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | Tamworth Castle | local authority museum, historic house museum, castle | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | Weoley Castle | ruins, archaeological site, archaeological museum, fortified manor house | Wikidata | |
| site | castle | 1070 | Dudley Castle | archaeological site, motte-and-bailey castle, castle | Wikidata |
| site | castle | 1122 | Kenilworth Castle | historic house museum, English Heritage, castle | Wikidata |
| site | museum | Lunt Roman Fort | independent museum, military museum, castrum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | Military Wireless Museum in the Midlands | independent museum, military museum | Wikidata | |
| site | museum | 1813 | Birmingham Proof House | military museum, building | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 2005 | Far Eastern Prisoners Of War Museum | military museum | Wikidata |