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By hebsauntyval

Gissa job

Thirty one years before the Jarrow match, 497 unemployed men left from this spot in Leicester to march to London to protest at the lack of employment opportunities.
Scarcely mentioned in the history books, it was a six day, 100 mile March with the goal of meeting either the King, Home Secretary or Archbishop of Canterbury for answers and a promise that conditions would improve.
The march was a remarkable humanitarian effort by ordinary folk who paved the way for change and sowed the seed of the welfare state

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