In 1984, thousands of workers in the area's mines were in their ninth month of the bitter Miners ... Northumberland. Mr Lavery said: “I remember the Christmas of 1984 vividly, I still lived at ...
The role of black miners in UK collieries is being celebrated in an exhibition at a Northumberland museum ... we still have our miners," she says. Coming from foreign countries and standing ...
Northumberland Miners' Picnic has only been cancelled during two wars and three strikes. The 156th picnic has a virtual brass band and remote circus takeover of Woodhorn Colliery Museum ...