12-07-1986 Durham Miners Gala 1986. Miners and ex-miners of the Durham coalfields wait to join in the traditional Labour movement parade through the City © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham Miners Gala 1986. Derek Hatton Deputy Leader of Liverpool Council and leading member of Militant at the annual miners meeting on crutches having injured his leg © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. COSA Banner on the traditional Labour movement parade through the City © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. MIners and their families admiring the Lodge banners from the Durham coalfields on display at the traditional Labour movement event with one of the founders of the British Lab... © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. Families admiring the Lodge banners from the Durham coalfields on display at the traditional Labour movement event © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. MIners and their families admiring the Lodge banners from the Durham coalfields on display at the traditional Labour movement event © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. MIners and their families admiring the Lodge banners from the Durham coalfields on display at the traditional Labour movement event © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. MIners and their families admiring the Lodge banners from the Durham coalfields on display at the traditional Labour movement event © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. Young people from the Durham coalfield commnities in an exuberant mood below Labour dignitaries on the balcony of the County Hotel on the traditional Labour movement parade th... © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. One year after the end of the miners strike, mIners and their families from the KInsley Drift mine in Yorkshire display a defiant message on their banner on the traditional La... © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham MIners Gala 1986. MIners and their families from Eppleton Lodge pass below Labour dignitaries on the balcony of the County Hotel on the traditional Labour movement parade through the City © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham Miners Gala 1986. Anne Scargill and women of the Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group on the traditional Labour movement parade through the City © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Durham Miners Gala 1986. MIners and their families from Sacriston Lodge parade back through the City after the traditional Labour movement rally on the Cricket Green on the day of The Big Meeting © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Marching through Durham at The MIners Gala in 1986 © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Miners marching through Durham at The MIners Gala in 1986 © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 Women marching through Durham at The MIners Gala in 1986 © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 The Chopwell Lodge banner of the NUM, Durham Miners Gala, 1986. The Red Banner is famous as it contains images of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Keir Hardie © Stefano Cagnoni

12-07-1986 More than one year on from the end of the year long miners strike, a miner looks at his child, unsure of what the future holds, whilst attending the traditional Durham Miners Gala. © Stefano Cagnoni

13-07-1985 Dennis Skinner MP speaking 1985 Durham Miners Gala. © Stefano Cagnoni

13-07-1985 Dennis Skinner MP speaking 1985 Durham Miners Gala. © Stefano Cagnoni

04-09-1984 Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, and Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Labour Party, together at the Durham Miners Gala in July 1984 at the height of the miners national stri... © Stefano Cagnoni

14-07-1984 Durham Miners Gala NUM President Arthur Scargill greets Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock to Kinnocks right is Peter Heathfield, NUM General Secretary © Stefano Cagnoni

14-07-1984 Durham Miners Gala NUM President Arthur Scargill greets Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock to Kinnocks right are Peter Heathfield, NUM General Secretary, and Dennis Skinner MP. © Stefano Cagnoni

14-07-1984 Durham Miners Gala miners with their lodge banner make their way into Durham Cathedral for the very last time as their pit had closed earlier that year. © Stefano Cagnoni

14-07-1984 Durham Miners Gala miners from Bear Park Lodge make their way into Durham Cathedral for the very last time as their pit had closed earlier that year. © Stefano Cagnoni

07-07-1984 The banner carried by striking miners from Monkwearmouth Lodge, Durham Miners Gala, July,1984. © Stefano Cagnoni

07-07-1984 Neil Kinnock, then leader of the Labour Party and Arthur Scargill, then General Secretary of the NUM, waving to miners at the Durham Miners Gala from the balcony of the County Hotel in July,1984. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Chopwell Lodge Red banner, famously bearing the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Adventure pit banner, one of three pits sunk at Rainton Colliery. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Boldon pit banner. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala. The Eden Lodge pit banner. © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. Young girls by the Boldon Lodge pit banner mirror the body positions of e... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. The Hylton Lodge pit banner bearing the portrait of Socialist, Keir Hardi... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. The Chopwell Lodge pit banner, bearing the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. The Hedleyhope Lodge banner, bearing the time honoured, Socialist slogan... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. The Hobson Lodge pit banner is carried back through the streets at the en... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^.The Pit banners of Witton Lodge, Sacriston, of Langley Park Lodge, and of... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. The Easington Lodge banner leads the way to the fairground held on the Du... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. Labour Party leaders, Michael Foot, Neil KInnock and Tony Benn watch the... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. Huge crowds line the narrow streets of Durham with the Craghead Lodge Ban... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. Labour Party leaders, including Tony Benn & Neil Kinnock, wave to the pro... © Stefano Cagnoni

16-07-1983 Durham Miners Gala, 1983. Miners and their families march on the 100th Anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala or ^Big Meeting^. Passing a local shop selling bankrupt and surplus stock. © Stefano Cagnoni

14-07-1983 Tony Benn MP, Michael Foot MP and his wife Jill Craigie, and Neil Kinnock MP on the balcony of the County Hotel on the occasion of the Centenary Durham Miners' Gala in 1983 © Stefano Cagnoni