The Depot

At 8am on New Year's Eve, 1973, two ambulance men called Jim Grummett and Colin Birch crossed the picket lines outside Sunderland Ambulance Depot and reported for work. From that day to this - two years, almost, to the day - the two men have been ' sent to Coventry' by their workmates, and union branch chairman Alan Little opposes any reconciliation. Is it simply a case of obstinacy? Or bloodymindedness?
This Inside Story of a conflict of ideologies analyses the roots of the feud, and it portrays what happens in the hearts of ordinary men, when the unyielding force confronts the immovable spirit.