Podcast feedSt Pancras Rent Strike - Fifty Years On
Fifty Years ago, in September 1960, Camden Council tenants went on strike against unfair rent rises. On 22nd September, 1960 bailiffs evicted families who refused to pay the increase and were met with so much unrest that the Public Order Act was invoked. Forty five years after the strike, three people closely involved with those events, Edie Cook, her daughter Lorraine and Peter Richards talked with John Cowley about that day and the impact it made on subsequent events as well as how it affected their lives.
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