Durham Miners Gala 1980s43

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, Neil Kinnock, Durham Miners Gala 1984 Miners Strike. © Stefano Cagnoni

14-07-1984 - Durham Miners Gala 1984 Arthur Scargill, Neil Kinnock, Peter Heathfield © Stefano Cagnoni

14-07-1984 - Durham Miners Gala 1984 Arthur Scargill greeting Neil Kinnock. Peter Heathfield (R) and Dennis Skinner MP © Stefano Cagnoni

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

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

07-07-1984 - Monkwearmouth striking miners, Durham Miners Gala, 1984. Miners and their families with the Monkwearmouth lodge banner © Stefano Cagnoni

07-07-1984 - Neil Kinnock, Arthur Scargill waving Durham Miners Gala from the balcony of the County Hotel, 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