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Haydock is a large village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it contains all of the Haydock electoral ward and a section of the Blackbrook electoral ward. The village is located roughly midway between Liverpool and Manchester, and contains the junction of the M6 motorway and the A580. At the 2001 Census, the village had a population of 11,962, reducing to 11,416 at the 2011 Census.
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The Lancashire League has been the name of two separate football competitions for clubs based in northern England.
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The National Union of Scottish Mineworkers (NUSW) is a trade union in Scotland, founded in 1894 as the Scottish Miners Federation. It joined the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, and in 1914 changed its name to National Union of Scottish Mineworkers. It survives as the National Union of Mineworkers.
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John McGurk was a British coal miner and trade unionist.
The Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (AABTD) was a British trade union which existed between 1866 and 2002. It represented skilled workers in the cotton industry who were responsible for preparing warp yarns prior to weaving.
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