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Originally Posted by les stewart
Anyone remember the Ban the Bomb strike the school went on? Probably Stewart Hartley and his cronies came up with that idea. All very brave then fizzled out in the end.
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It was actually a Hands Off Cuba protest during the Cuban missile crisis of October, 1962. It started off as a petition organised by Stuart Hartley and his beatnik-type buddies which escalated into a full-scale march to the Town Hall. I well remember Gobbin standing in the middle of Blackburn Road trying to persuade the lads to turn back to school. They just swept past him like the tide, although I think most of the lads regarded it as a bit of a lark, without really knowing what it was all about.