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Drove to Chesterfield and found an absolute mass of boxes of beautiful toys from the French CGT, worth tens of thousands of pounds,enough to give every miner’s child two toys..went to the club and began talking to people about calling a general strike in Chesterfield..talked to some of the French CGT| people who were charming. They gave me a lovely medallion ‘Solidarite Mineurs Britanniques which I shall put on a red ribbon and wear on my jacket

Tony Benn, Diary 21^st December 1982

Tony Benn (1925-2014) was MP for Chesterfield (1984-2001)

The Miners Strike ran from March 1984 to March 1985