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Daily Record
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National
Kirsty Paterson

Falkirk workers' historic battle against poverty wages remembered

The bravery of a small band of workers who took up arms against poverty wages and dreadful living conditions in a bid to change things for the better has been remembered.

On April 5, Falkirk Provost Billy Buchanan laid flowers to mark the 202nd anniversary of the Battle of Bonnymuir, part of the Radical Uprising of 1820.

An engraved granite stone commissioned by the Provost to mark the bi-centenary of the landmark event was finally installed last year, after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to be delayed.

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