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DC3 - Raissa Page Collection

1 - Ephemera

2 - Correspondence

3 - Publications

4 - Generic notes, notebooks and address books

5 - Israel

6 - The UK coal miners' strike 1984-1985 and its legacy

1 - Photographic prints

1 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Orgreave picket "Police without 'flashes'/numbers at Orgreave picket 6.6.84. Miners allege these are soldiers

2 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/women "Women from Bentley Women's Action Group picket at Orgreave S Yorks 6 June 1984 (left: Gina right: Bobbie)"

3 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Orgreave S. Yorks "Arthur Scargill at Orgreave picket 6 June 84."

4 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Orgreave Yorks "Arthur Scargill on Orgreave picket 6 June 84"

5 - Large photograph. No description. Received in packet with other Orgreave images dated 6 Jun 1984. Oversize

6 - Large photograph. No description. Received in packet with other Orgreave images dated 6 Jun 1984. Oversize

7 - Large photograph. No description. Received in packet with other Orgreave images dated 6 Jun 1984. Oversize [Arthur Scargill]

8 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85/Women's support & action "Father & daughter at Windhill soup kitchen (Wooley Edge Colliery) Darton S Yorks February 85 [Woolley Edge] [Woolley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire]

9 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Women's support & Action "Pauline (L) & Elicia (R) sampling the fishfingers at Windhill soup kitchen (Wooley Edge Colliery) Darton Nr Barnsley S Yorks February 85" [Woolley Edge] 2 duplicate images included [Woolley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire]

10 - Photograph. Agency description: Children/Mothers "Miners wife & children colliery row Woolley Edge Colliery S Yorks" Format number: 010135. Duplicate also included (Description headers: Housing (North) / NUM strike 84/85 / Social Conditions) [Woolley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire]

11 - Photograph. Agency description: Children (5-10) "Colliery Row Woolley Edge S Yorks"

12 - Photograph. Agency description: Youth (UK) "4 youths in colliery village S.Yorks"

13 - Contact sheet. 3 images. Packet marked "Woolley Edge". [Woolley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire]

14 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/South Wales Women's Support Group "Dickensian times warrant 19th century dress as South Wales miners wives return from a fund raising sponsored swim at Abertillery Baths (in background) Abertillery S Wales June 84".

15 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Wales/Women's Support Group "Dickensian Times in 1984 - Members of S Wales Women's Support Group on hand at Abertillery miner's food stores to greet members of the Hackney to S Wales food convoy on 23.6.84 Abertillery S Wales"

16 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/South Wales/Women's Support group "Dickensiann dress for Dickensian Times in 1984 as members of the support group return from a fund raising day for the food fund Abertillery June 1984"

17 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's action "Miners wives fund raising at Pant S Wales May 1984"

18 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action "Miners wives fund raising at Pant S Wales"

19 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Hackney "Mayor of Hackney* sees off food convoy with support for South Wales miners June 84 *Ken Hanson" [Kenrick Hanson]

20 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / S. Wales "Retired miner (80 yrs) and his wife, chairwoman of Pant miners social club. Pant. S.Wales June 84"

21 - Photograph. Agency description "Miners strike / S. Wales "Striking miner Pant social club. Pant S. Wales June 84"

22 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / South Wales food convoy "Hackney resident Bob Gilbert and son Joel see off the South Wales Miners food convoy from hackney Town Hall 23.6.84"

23 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Hackney/S.Wales Food convoy Hackney resident Bob Gilbert & son Joel see off the food convoy. Hackney T.Hall 23.6.84"

24 - Photograph. Agency description: "The deputy mayor Hackney (left) greeted by Mayor of Islwyn, S Wales on arrival of food convoy 23.6.84".

25 - Photograph. Agency description: Industry / Coal. Format number: 012258. In packet marked "South Wales". [Full coal wagons in railway sidings]

26 - Photograph. Agency description: Industry/UK coal mining "Coal mine wheel Wales" Format number: 012049

27 - Photograph. Agency description: Industry/Coal mining "Coal mine wheel Wales"

28 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / S Wales "Jim Watkins NUM official responsible for food fund Llanhilleth S Wales June 84 (pit baths in background)"

29 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action " 'Here we go for the women of the working class' Miners wives end 1st National Conference of Women Against Pit Closures Sheffield 17 Aug 1985." Format number: 001912 3 duplicate images included.

30 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Yorkshire gala "Ex miner & pensioner at Yorkshire NUM Gala 16.6.84"

31 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal Mining/Retired miners/Elderly "Robert & Minnie Plummer with the NCB Certificate they will not hang on their walls. Robert retired after 45 years working underground with £400. Minnie began working at 12 years as an agricultural labourer. Both are now disabled, Bentley, S.Yorks" Format number: 000868

32 - Small colour photograph. Description from b&w image: "Robert & Minnie Plummer with the NCB Certificate they will not hang on their walls. Robert retired after 45 years working underground with £400. Minnie began working at 12 years as an agricultural labourer. Both are now disabled, Bentley, S.Yorks"

33 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women "Ann Burrell, of Rhodesia Women's Action Group with sons Ross & Richard: I'll wash but I'll not iron during this strike. My sons aren't going to remember whether their jeans were ironed. Rhodesia, Notts"

34 - Photograph. Larger cropped version of image DC3/6/1/33

35 - Photograph. Agency description: Women/work "Unpaid work/washing"

36 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / family life "Ken Burrell and Ann Burrell. Sunday lunch (Rhodesia, Notts. Shireoaks colliery)

37 - Photograph. Agency description: Women (symbol) Miners strike/families "Ann Burrell of Rhodesia Women's Action Group with (from L>R) sons Richard & Ross. Rhodesia, Notts (Shireoaks colliery)

38 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal mining communities "Miner Rob Coe & garden, Rhodesia, Notts (shireoaks colliery)" Format number: 010971 Duplicate included

39 - Photograph. Agency description: Mining communities "Ken Burrell sets off to work at Shireoaks Colliery, Rhodesia, Notts"

40 - Photograph. No description. Packet marked "Rhodesia" [13 Jul 1985]

41 - Photograph. No description. Packet marked "Rhodesia" [13 Jul 1985]

42 - Contact sheet. 34 images. Marked "No 1 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

43 - Contact sheet. 31 images. Marked "No 2 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85 (4)*"

44 - Contact sheet. 35 images. Marked "No 3 Rhodesia NUM Notts 13/7/85"

45 - Contact sheet. 33 images. Marked "No 4 Rhodesia Notts 13/7/85 No.2"

46 - Contact sheet. 36 images. Marked "No 5 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

47 - Contact sheet. 30 images. Marked "No 6 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

48 - Contact sheet. 32 images. Marked "No 7 Rhodesia NUM 13/7/85"

49 - Contact sheet. 36 images. Marked "No 8 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

50 - Contact sheet. 29 images. Marked "No 9 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85" 1 duplicate included

51 - Contact sheet. 35 images. Marked "No 10 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

52 - Contact sheet. 34 images. Marked "No 11 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

53 - Contact sheet. 34 images. Marked "No 12 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

54 - Contact sheet. 36 images. Marked "No 13 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

55 - Contact sheet. 35 images. Marked "No 14 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

56 - Contact sheet. 29 images. Marked "No 15 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

57 - Contact sheet. 36 images. Marked "No 16 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

58 - Contact sheet. 33 images. Marked "No 18 Rhodesia Notts NUM 13/7/85"

59 - Contact sheet. 31 images. Marked "No 19" Marked "Rhodesia" on packet, and kept with other material shot on 13 Jul 1985

60 - Photograph. Agency description: Generations "Parents collecting children from school in Swanscombe Kent"

61 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Food convoy/Kent NUM "Wives of Kent miners (they run the food kitchens) waiting to accompany food convoy to Kent - at peckham Rye 19.5.84, Rhodes Boyson has confirmed that donated food will be deducted from supplementary benefit paid to miners' families"

62 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/Food convoys "London food convoy for Kent miners reaches Deal Kent May 84"

63 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Hardship/Communal eatying/Women's action " 'How do you feed a family on £11.90 a week?' (amount paid to families of strikers after deduction of presumed £16 a week strike pay, DHSS supplementary benefit) Waiting for Sunday dinner on Saturday at Chislet Miners Welfare, Hersden, Kent May 1984"

64 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike "Waiting for lunch - Miners children (brother & sister) Chislett Welfare Centre Hersden Kent lunch provided daily by strike committee (except Sunday) for miners children"

65 - Photograph. Agency description Miners strike/Kent "Chislet Miners centre, Hersden Kent. 2 brothers and sister having daily meal supplied by centre May 84"

66 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent "Three members of one family at lunch provided daily (except Sunday) by Chislet Miners Welfare Centre Hersden Kent"

67 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent "Miners wives at work in soup kitchen at Chislet miners welfare centre, Hersden Kent May 84"

68 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent NUM "Soup Kitchen Hersden Kent Chislet (miners) welfare centre May 84"

69 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/Food convoys "Londoners and striking miners unload food convoy from SE London (Lewisham) at Mill End Miners' Welfare Centre Deal, Kent May 84"

70 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent "Chislet Miners Centre, Hersden Kent May 84 Waiting for lunch"

71 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent 84 "Miners sons (brothers) outside Chislet Welfare Centre, Hersden, Kent May 84"

72 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent "Demonstration outside Canterbury prison for the release of Malcolm Pitt. Jack Collins NUM centre"

73 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent "Protest for release of Malcolm Pitt by Kent NUM outside Canterbury Prison 5.84 Jack Collins on L"

74 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strik 84/85 "Miners' lobby of parliament June 84 London"

75 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Demo London "27 Jun 84 Miner on strike from Notts"

76 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/NUM & SE TUC rally London 27.6.84 "Tony Benn addresses march in Jubilee Gardens"

77 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Demo "27.6.84 London Tony Benn"

78 - Contact sheet. 36 images. Grimethorpe Colliery, S Yorks.

79 - Photograph. Agency description: NUm strike 84/85/Miners' wives "Elsie Walker (b 1919) was a child during the 1926 strike. Married to a miner, now a widow (her husband died during the present strike), mother of a miner. At Grimethorpe Colliery S Yorks April 1985"

80 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/picket/Creswell Notts "'Good morning Mr Simpson' Creswell colliery, Notts 5 June 84"

81 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 "Away from the picket line A striking miner is jumped by police while onlookers taunt: 'Racist, racist!' Cresswell, Notts June 1984

82 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Cresswell Notts "Arrest of miner Creswelln Notts"

83 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Cresswell Notts picket "Picket at Creswell Colliery 5.6.84"

84 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Creswell Notts picket "Picket at Creswell colliery 5.6.84"

85 - Photograph. No description. [Picket at Creswell Colliery 5.6.84]

86 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Creswell Colliery Notts "Picket at Creswell Colliery 5.6.84"

87 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action & Support "Women Against Pit Closures Rally for International Women's Day 85 at Chesterfield" [9 Mar 1985]

88 - Photograph. Agency description: "Women Against Pit Closures"

89 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / Women's Action & Support "Members of Bentley Women's Action Group at Women Against Pit Closures International Women's Day rally Chesterfield 9.3.85 give Betty Heathfield thunderous applause - 'the women's groups must go on - they must not be disbanded - we have just begun to fight.' (Cath Church on right)"

90 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85/Womens Action/Aftermath "Arthur Scargill addresses First National Conference of Women Against Pit Closures, Sheffield, 17 Aug 85". Format number: 022030. Duplicate image included [Mick Magahey, Peter Heathfield, Ann Lillburn]

91 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/SE TUC & NUM March London 27.6.84 "Clotil Walcott, President general of National Union of Domestic Employees, Trinidad W.I. in London on march for miners 27.6.84"

92 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action & Support "Scots miners wives at Women Against Pit Closures International Women's Day rally at Chesterfield 9 March 1985"

93 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Women's support & Action " Minus 15 below freezing 5am on the picket line at Darfield Colliery Barnsley S Yorks Ann Scargill (L) and Marshal Marshall (R) Barnsley S Yorks"

94 - Photograph. No description on rear. [Darfield Colliery, Ann Scargill, Martha Marshall]

95 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Pit Closures / S. Yorks "from L to R: Ian, Betty & Chris Dukes outside their home. Ian & Chris (father & son) both work at darfield Colliery, closure announced on 16.5.85"

96 - Contact sheet. 13 images. No description. [Ian, Betty & Chris Dukes outside their home. Ian & Chris (father & son) both work at darfield Colliery, closure announced on 16.5.85]

97 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Woman Against Pit Closures "'This is how the media use women'. Members of Women Against Pit Closures - all miners wives from the Doncaster area -discuss the media representation of women at study

98 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Women's Action & support " Miners wives and children protest at Edlington Colliery S Yorks 21 February 85. The women's protest succeeded in blocking the colliery entrance for 3/4 hour

99 - Photograph. Agency description: Youth / Employment "Unemployed youths returning from coal-picking, Fryston Colliery (post-strike closure 1987)"

100 - Photograph. No description. Almost identical (but different) shot to DC3/6/1/99. ["Unemployed youths returning from coal-picking, Fryston Colliery (post-strike closure 1987)"]

101 - Photograph. Agency description: Youth/UK "3 youths, Fryston, S.Yorks"

102 - Photograph. Agency description: Industry (UK) closures "Fryston Colliery Castleford S Yorks Closed post-strike 1987"

103 - Photograph. Agency description: Communication-Post/Public services/Post offices/Closures 87 "Closed post office Fryston village (former mining village) S.Yorks"

104 - Photograph: Housing/Coal mining communities (UK) "Colliery back-to-back housing Fryston Village, Castleford, S.Yorks".

105 - Photograph. Agency description: Housing (UK) coal mining communities "Colliery back-to-back housing, Fryston village, S.Yorkshire"

106 - Photograph. Agency description: Unemployment/closed industries/mining "Demolition worker at Glasshoughton Colliery, S. Yorkshire."

107 - Photograph. No description on rear. Marked "The Alamo Picket, Cortonwood" on packet

108 - Photograph. No description on rear. Marked "The Alamo Picket, Cortonwood" on packet.

109 - Contact sheet. 18 images. No description. Marked "The Alamo Picket, Cortonwood" on packet. [Cortonwood Colliery, Rotherham, South Yorkshire]

110 - Contact sheet. 18 images. No description. Marked "The Alamo Picket, Cortonwood" on packet. [Cortonwood Colliery, Rotherham, South Yorkshire]

111 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Bentley kitchens "Father & son at Bentley Pavillion soup kitchen run by Bentley Women's Action Group"

112 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Bentley S. Yorks "Soup kitchen, Bentley Pavillion, S.Yorks"

113 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Bentley S.Yorks "Miner waiting for lunch at Bentley Pavillion soup kitchen"

114 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Bentley Yorks "Soup kitchen at Bentley Pavillion run by Bentley Women's Action Group"

115 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Bentley S Yorks NUM "'Bobby Buckle' (R woman symbol) reports back after picket of Orgreave Colliery. Bentley soup kitchen. June 84".

116 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Yorks / Bentley "Soup kitchen at Bentley Pavillion June 84 from left to right: Kit Gerry & 'Bobby' ['Bobby Buckle' added in pencil]

117 - Contact sheet. 34 images. No description. Marked "Bentley Soup Kitchen" on packet.

118 - Contact sheet. 27 images. No description. Marked "Bentley Soup Kitchen" on packet.

119 - Contact sheet. 18 images. No description. Marked "Bentley Soup Kitchen" on packet.

120 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action "' We made 'em ourselves!' Souper women Betty Speight, Linda Ruston, Pauline Watkins & Betty Cook, members of Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group who ran Wind Hill & Wooley Edge Kitchens now sell pinnies made and designed by them to raise money for jailed & sacked miners Woolley Edge Nr Barnsley S Yorks"

121 - Contact sheet. 35 images. Marked "Bentley Return to Work March 1985" on packet

122 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 85 / Return to work "A picket of sacked miners from Coventry ask returning Bentley strikers not to cross their line on the day of the national return to work 5 Mar 1985"

123 - Photograph. Agency descripption: Miners strike 85/Return to work/Sacked miners "Peter John Reid, sacked Coventry miner outside Bentley colliery on the morning of the national return to work. Bentley S Yorks 5.3.1985"

124 - Photograph. No description, but very similar image to DC3/6/1/122 ["A picket of sacked miners from Coventry ask returning Bentley strikers not to cross their line on the day of the national return to work 5 Mar 1985"]

125 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Sacked miners "Peter John Reid sacked miner from Coventry pit pickets Bentley Colliery S Yorks on the morning of the official return to work 5.3.85 The Bentley strikers did not cross

126 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 85/Return to work "Mike & Dian Lawson with Tracey on the day of the return to work at Bentley 5 March 1985"

127 - Photograph: NUM strike 85/Return to work on 5 March 85 (Met by a picket of sacked miners from Coventry they did not cross the line)

128 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / hardship " 'I'd like to see Carol Thatcher doing that' Children coal-picking, Bentley S Yorks. November 84"

129 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike / Bentley S Yorks 84 "Child picking for coal at bentley Tip, Bentley, S Yorks. The amount in the bucket took over 3/4 hr to find in the slag of rock, rubble and coal refuse. Children and adults have been arrested for picking on the tip."

130 - Photograph. Miner's strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Striking miner Pedro Fox at Bentley S Yorks Oct 84"

131 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal Miners' Strike 84 "Coal picking at Bentley Colliery S Yorks. The coal is picked from slag of rock, rubble and discarded poor grade coal which has been twice washed and discarded as unusable. This is now an offence and several adults & children have been arrested during the strike and charged with tresspass & theft

132 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal Mining / Bentley S Yorks "Bentley Colliery S Yorks Oct 84 "

133 - Photograph. Agency description: Bentley Colliery / Coal Mining "Bentley Colliery S Yorks"

134 - Photograph. No description. No. "20" on rear. Marked "Bentley Pickets Families" on packet

135 - Photograph. No description. Packet marked "Bentley, pickets, families" [Bentley Colliery gates]

136 - Photograph. No description. Packet marked "Bentley, pickets, families" [Bentley Colliery gates]

137 - Photograph. Format description: Miners' strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks " Newspapers & magazines now an unaffordable luxury, and television sets for many having been returned to the rental firms, striking Bentley miners gather to listen to the late night news before going on picket. This group have had their worst fears confirmed with the news that the pit deputies (NACODS) have settled with the Coal Board and cancelled their strike for the 25.10.84. Bentley S Yorks

138 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 "Diane & Mike Lawson selling up, to enable them to continue on strike. Bentley S Yorks May 1984"

139 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84 / Families "Selling up: Diane & Mike Lawson with son Keith sell their home to pay debts, enabling Mike to continue on strike. There are five children in the family. Diane is a member of the Bently Women's Action Group 5 June 1984 Bentley S Yorks

140 - Small colour photograph. No description. Marked "Bentley, Pickets, Families" on packet. [My dad is a striking miner t-shirt]

141 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks / "twinning" "Miners' children Bentley S Yorks Oct 84 T shirts designed & printed by Camden Nalgo which is "twinned" with Bentley"

142 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Twinning "Michelle & Theresa, Bentley S.Yorks"

143 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Camden Nalgo join picket at bentley Colliery 15 October 84 6am"

144 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/'twinning' "A striking miner Bentley S Yorks stands in front of Camden NALGO banner outside Bentley Colliery on early morning picket. Camden NALGO has rwinned with Bentley and regularly includes exchange visits in their support programme 10/84"

145 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/Bentley "Camden NALGO members visit Bentley & are met by Maureen Page (sic) R at The Jet Miners' Welfare Club Bentley S Yorks 14 Oct 84"

146 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/ Bentley S Yorks "Camden NALGO members at Bentley Miners Welfare Club 14 October 84. Cathie Jaspers, centre striking worker from Camden homeless families unit. Camden Nalgo, with miners"

147 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / NUM & SE TUC March London 27.6.84 "Mike & Diane Lawson (Bentley Women's Action Group) from Yorkshire on march"

148 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' Strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Jill Fox (R) member of Bentley Women's Action group brings tea to the picket at Bentley Colliery 6am 15 Oct 84"

149 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/Bentley S Yorks "Early morning picket at Bentley Colliery and Jill Fox (R) provides tea"

150 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/pickets "Bentley S Yorks 84 16 Oct. There is no fire. Police & coal board stopped fires saying they must be at least 50 yards from nearest structure. Shortly after this picture was taken the picket was moved by the police 100 yards back from the colliery entrance

151 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Women's support & action "Sue Davidson member of Bentley Women's Action Group S Yorks (twinned with Camden) 'They (southerners) thought we were thick & lived in hovels....But we're here to stay. It's miners' wives who are going to change this country and we're going to change the women's movement too". Duplicate image included.

152 - Photograph. No description. [Sue Davidson, Bentley Colliery, member of Bentley Women's Action Group, South Yorkshire]

153 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/85 / Bentley S Yorks " Women (symbol) L>R Maureen Page & Jill Fox receive news from pickets that NACODS decide not to strike 17 Oct 84"

154 - Photograph. Small colour photograph. No description. Marked "Bentley, Pickets, Families" on packet. [Bentley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, "No Police Served Here"]

155 - Photograph. Agency description: [part missing]/Twinning "Pat (centre) a member of Bentley Women's Action Group, Bentley S Yorks discusses the strike with members of Camden NALGO. Camden have 'adopted' and 'twinned' with bentley colliery. Miners' welfare club. Bentley S Yorks 10/84"

156 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/Children "Rachel Page, daughter of striking miner, Armthorpe S Yorks Oct 84. Rachel's mother Maureen is a member of Bentley Women's Action Group".

157 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Bentley S. Yorks "Paul Foot's article of 6 June 84 gives miners new heart" [Daily Mirror, Doncaster, South Yorkshire]

158 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84 " Striking miner, Bentley, S Yorks 10/84". Marked "Do not identify location during strike" [Doncaster, South Yorkshire]

159 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's support & action "Betty Cook (Barnsley Miners' Wives Group) with son Glyn striking miner from Wooley Edge Colliery a quiet moment after the morning picket Darton Nr Barnsley S Yorks"

160 - Photograph. Agency description and information on the reverse

161 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's action & support "Barnsley Miners' Wives Against Pit Closures meeting at Worsbrough Miners Welfare Hall Nr Barnsley S Yorks 9 Feb 85 Important decisions on making the money stretch to meet the needs of striking miners and their families (From L to R: Elicia, Marsha & Debby)"

162 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Women's support & action "Ann Scargill (L) & Elicia Billingham washing up after meeting of Barnsley Miners' Wives Group at Worsborough Miners Welfare Centre Worsborough S Yorks February 85"

163 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Miners' wives / Meetings"Striking miners wives in meeting at Worsborough Miners Welfare S Yorks"

164 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / 84/85 "Miner's wife Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group, Barnsley S Yorks"

165 - Agency description: Women (symbol) Miners strike 84/85 / Fund raising "(R) Elicia Billingham & Betty Cook, Barnsley Miners' Wives Action Group with students at Hull University 2/85"

166 - 2 strips of contact sheet. 10 images in total. No description. Marked "Barnsley Miners Wives Group" on packet.

167 - Contact sheet. 26 images. Marked "Barnsley Miners Wives Group" on packet

168 - Contact sheet. 35 images. Marked "Barnsley Miners Wives Group" on packet

169 - Contact sheet. 32 images. Marked "Barnsley Miners Wives Group" on packet

170 - Photograph. No description. Marked "Barnsley" on packet

171 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Women's support & action "Staunch support for the strike, Joan Thomas landlady of the Moulders Arms Barnsley S Yorks with striking miner son Dave (background: (R) Dave's wife Rita wuth daughter Lynne (L))"

172 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal mining / social & family life "Getting ready for Saturday night out Barnsley S. Yorks 1985"

173 - Photograph. No description. Marked "Barnsley" on packet [Anne Scargill]

174 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 "The Bitterness Remains (striking miner's wife) Armthorpe S Yorks 9.3.85". ["We won't forget the scabs"]

175 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84 / Armthorpe S Yorks "Rachel Page daughter of striking miner Armthorpe Oct 84"

176 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Pickets "Last picket at Armthorpe S Yorks 9 Mar 85"

177 - Photograph. Agency description: Youth / Mining communities "Armthorpe Youth Centre S Yorks"

178 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / children "Miner's child, Armthorpe" [Yoda, Star Wars]

179 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women in 26 strike "Jean Bradley, age 83, miner's widow, son & grandson miners, at Armthorpe Colliery, S Yorks".

180 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84 / Disabled miners "Arthur & Bessy Page at home Armthorpe S Yorks. After 10 years, retired in 74 at 51. Arthur Page has 'black lung' and is still fighting for a full pension"

181 - Photograph. No description. ["Arthur & Bessy Page at home Armthorpe S Yorks. After 10 years, retired in 74 at 51. Arthur Page has 'black lung' and is still fighting for a full pension"]

182 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike/Bentley S Yorks 84 "Child picking for coal at Bentley Tip Bentley S Yorks. The amount in the bucket took over 3/4 hr to find in the slag of rock, rubble and coal refuse". Marked "Restricted use during duration of strike"

183 - Photograph. Agency description: Children "Children coal picking during miners strike 84/85 @ Bentley colliery. S Yorks."

184 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal Mining "Bentley Colliery S Yorks 84" [South Yorkshire]

185 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/Bentley S Yorks "Coal picking at Bentley Tip, S Yorks, Oct 84. It takes 2 hrs to fill a sack of reffuse coal picked from the slag of rock & rubble, Oct 84"

186 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Coal picking at Bentley Tip S Yorks Oct 84. It will take 2hrs to fill a sack of refuse coal picking amongst the slag of rock, rubble and rejected coal. Children & adults have been arrested for coal picking."

187 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/Bentley S Yorks "Coal picking at Bentley Tip S Yorks Oct 84. It takes about 2 hours to fill a sack, picking low grade coal from the tip refuse of slag, rubble & rock. Children & adults have been arrested for coal picking"

188 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Striking miner Pedro Fox at Bentley S Yorks Oct 84"

189 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/Families/disabled "Ronald & Minnie Plummer with the National Coal Board Certificate they will not hand (sic, hang] on the wall. 'It's an insult' maintains Minnie. After 45 years under ground Ron Plummer received £450 and a certificate of merit. Now both are disabled. Their daughters Bobbie Buckle & Sue Davison are active members of Bentley Women's Action Group"

190 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action & Support "Sue Davidson member of Bentley Women's Action Group S Yorks (twinned with Camden Nalgo) 'They (southerners) thought we were thick & lived in hovels....but we're here to styay. It's the miners' wives who are going to change his country...and we're going to change the women's movement too.' "

191 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's role "Bobbie Buckle (R) returns from Orgreave picket picket to swap stories & experiences with her husband Kit (L) & Gerry, Bentley Pavillion, Bentley S Yorks June 84"

192 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' Strike 84/85 / S Yorks "Official picket. Bentley, S Yorks"

193 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners Strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Jill Fox (R) member of Bentley Women's Action Group brings early morning tea to picket at bentley Colliery 6 am 15 Oct 84"

194 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Trade Union Support (other) "Pickets at Bentley Colliery S Yorks break the news to Maureen Page & Jill Fox: NACODS Executive decide not to strike in spite of an 82% vote in favour. Bentley S Yorks 23.10.84"

195 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Members of Camden Nalgo (twinning with Bentley) outside Bentley Colliery 6 am 15 October 84"

196 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 "Sacked miners. Peter John Reid sacked miner from Coventry. Pickets Bentley Colliery S Yorks on the morning of the official return to work 5.3.85 The Bentley strikers did not cross."

197 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / Sacked Miners "Peter John Reid, sacked Coventry miner pickets Bentley Colliery S Yorks on the day of return to work 5 March 85. The Bentley men did not cross the picket. Bentley S Yorks"

198 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 85 / Return to work / Sacked miners "A picket of sacked miners from Coventry ask returning strikers not to cross the line on the day of the national return to work 5.3.85, Bentley S Yorks"

199 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / Return to work / S Yorks "When the striking miners returned to Bentley Colliery on the 5.3.85 they found the pit gates locked."

200 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84 / S. Yorks "Striking miner reading Mirror disclosure of government's involvement in miners' strike, 6 June 84, Bentley S. Yorks". Duplicate image included [Bentley soup kitchen]

201 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike / Bentley S Yorks "Miners kitchen at Bentley Pavillion, June 84"

202 - Photograph. Miners strike / Bentley Yorks "Miners at Bentley waiting for lunch in soup kitchen"

203 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/85 / Soup kitchens "Father & son, Bentley, s. kitchen, S Yorks " [Soup Kitchen]

204 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84 / Bentley S Yorks "Michelle & Teresa sport t-shirts for Bentley Women's Action group 'sponsor a child for Christmas' appeal. T-shirts designed by Lucy Morrison & Camden Nalgo Support group."

205 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / return to work "Return to work 5.3.85 at Bentley Colliery S Yorks (Tracey (child) with parents Diane & Mike Lawson)"

206 - Photograph. No agency description. Marked "Bentley" on packet. [Bentley Colliery, Doncaster, South Yorkshire]

207 - Photograph. No agency description. Marked "Bentley" on packet [Mike and Diane Lawson, from Bentley Colliery, Doncaster, South Yorkshire]

208 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners Strike / Bentley Yorks "Diane Lawson a member of the Bentley Women's Action Group with Keith one of her five children carry a bag of potato peelings from the soup kitchen to exchange for a half dozen eggs and a few sweets from the local 'pig man'

209 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / S Yorkshire "From R Mike, Diane, Tracey and Keith Lawson. Selling up to pay off debts and continue the strike. Bentley Yorks June 84"

210 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Kent "Miners demonstrating outside Canterbury Prison against detention of Kent Leader Malcolm Pitt 26.5.84"

211 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Kent "Demonstration outside Canterbury Prison for the release of Malcolm Pitt 26.5.84"

212 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Kent NUM "Protest by Kent Miners against detentionm of Malcolm Pitt outside Canterbury Prison. Jack Collins on L"

213 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Kent NUM "Chislet (miners) Welfare Centre - waiting for lunch".

214 - Photograph. Agency description: Kent Miners Food Convoy / NUM Strike "Wives of Kent Miners (they run soup kitchens) at Peckham Rye to receive food convoy 19.5.84"

215 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action / Hardship " 'How do you feed a family on £11.90 a week?' (amount allowed for striking family of 4 by DHSS after deduction of preumed strike pay of £16 from supplementary benefit claimed by strikers' wives). Waiting for Sunday dinner on Saturday, Chislet Miners Welfare, Hersden Kent May 1984"

216 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Kent "Miners wives at work in soup kitchen, Chislet Miners Welfare Club, Hersden, Kent. May 84". Format number: 002441. Duplicate image (small) included

217 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Kent "Three children from one family at lunch provided daily (except Sunday) by Chislet Miners Welfare Centre, Hersden, Kent May 84"

218 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 "Miners children waiting for soup kitchen tom open at site of Chislet Colliery, Closed in 1970's, now a Gypsy Caravan site, Hersden, Kent (Kent County Council abolished school dinners in 1983)" [Romany]

219 - Photograph. Agency description: Children (5-10) "Colliery Row, Woolley Edge, S Yorks"

220 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / Women's Support & Action "Father & daughter at Wind Hill Soup Kitchen (Wooley Edge Colliery), Darton S Yorks February 85" [South Yorkshire]

221 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / Women's Action " 'We made them ourselves', Windhill and Woolley Edge Souper Women: Betty Speight, Linda Ruston, Pauline Watkin, and Betty Cook, members of Barnsley Miners' Wives Action Group, Woolley Edge, S Yorks"

222 - Photograph. No agency description. ["We made them ourselves", Windhill and Woolley Edge Souper Women: Betty Speight, Linda Ruston, Pauline Watkin, and Betty Cook, members of Barnsley Miners' Wives Action Group, Woolley Edge, S Yorks", Miners' strike]

223 - Photograph. Agency description: Housing / S Yorks " Miners' housing, Colliery Row, Woolley Edge 85, S Yorkshire"

224 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/85 / Pickets "Inside the Alamo, Cortonwood S Yorks, where the strike began"

225 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / Women's Action & Support "Miners' Wives & Children Protest at Edlington Colliery S Yorks, 21 February 85, The women's protest succeeded in blocking the colliery entrance for 3/4 hour" [South Yorkshire]

226 - Photograph. Agency description: Women/Shopping "Rhodesia village / Notts"

227 - Photograph. Agency description: Mining Communities / Women (symbol) "Ann Burrell & sons (L>R) Ross & Richard, Rhodesia, Notts (Shireoaks colliery)"

228 - Photograph. No agency description. [Ann Burrell & son, Rhodesia, Nottinghamshire, Shireoaks colliery]

229 - Photograph. No agency description. [Ann Burrell & sons, Rhodesia, Nottinghamshire, Shireoaks colliery]

230 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners Strike / S Wales "Jim Watkins NUM official responsible for food fund S Wales, Llanhilleth, S Wales June 84" [South Wales]

231 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal Mining/Industry "Surface worker, Maerdy, S Wales"

232 - Photograph. Agency description: Coal Mining/Industry "Tea break, Maerdy Colliery, S Wales" [South Wales, immediately post-strike?]

233 - Photograph. Agency description: Industry/UK/Coal Mining "Coal mine wheel, Wales"

234 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/Women's Action "Victorian dress for Victorian times, Miners wives at Abertillery food stores. July 84"

235 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / South Wales / Women's support group "Dickensian Times in 1984 warrant 19th century dress as South Wales miners wives return from a fund raising sponsored swim at Abertillery baths (in background), Abertillery S Wales June 84"

236 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / South Wales / Women's support groups "Dickensian times in 1984 warrant 19th century dress as members of the support group return from a fund raising day for the food fund, Abertillery, S Wales, June 84"

237 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / South Wales "Miners wives (sic) dressed as tramps set off from Pant miners Club to collect for food fund, June 84"

238 - Photograph. Agency description: Elderly/leisure/coal mining communities "Retired miners in working men's club, Castleford. S. Yorks" [South Yorkshire]

239 - Photograph. Agency description: Unemployment / S. Yorkshire "3 unemployed youths coal picking at post-strike closed Fryston Colliery Castleford S Yorks"

240 - Photograph. Agency description: Youth/UK "3 youths, Fryston, S Yorks" [South Yorkshire, post-Miners' strike]

241 - Photograph. Agency description: Housing (UK) coal mining communities "Colliery housing (back-to-back), Fryston Village, S. Yorks" [South Yorkshire, post-miners' strike]

242 - Photograph. Agency description: Housing/coal mining communities "Colliery bak-to-back housing, Fryston Village, Castleford, S Yorks"

243 - Photograph. Agency description: Unemployment/closures of industries "Demolition worker at Glasshoughton Colliery, S. Yorks ('87)"

244 - Photograph. Agency description: Industry/closures/coal mining "Demolition worker at Glasshoughton Colliery (closed 1987) Castleford, S Yorks"

245 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / Women's Action & Support "Ann Scargill (L) & Marsha Marshall (R) on the picket line at Darfield Colliery, Nr Barnsley S Yorks at 5am and minus 15 degrees below freezing. February 10, 1985" [South Yorkshire]

246 - Photograph. No agency description. Marked "85B 40% crop as dummy" on rear. [Darfield Colliery, South Yorkshire. Father & son work there. Closure announced on 16.5.85]

247 - Photograph. No agency description: Marked "Armthorpe" on packet. [Retired miner's widow]

248 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Cresswell Notts (sic)/picket "'Good morning Mr Simpson', Miners daily salutation to police on picket line. Creswell colliery 5 June 1984"

249 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike/Picket/Police 84 "Away from the picket line a solitary miner is accosted by policeman in a back street, Cresswell Notts (sic). Onlookers taunt police with cries of 'racists'. The miner is black. Creswell Nottinghamshire 4 June 1984"

250 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Creswell Notts picket "Picket at Creswell Colliery Notts 5.6.84".

251 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 / picketting Notts "'Maggie's spacemen eat pickets for breakfast'. Yorkshire miners picket Creswell Colliery, Nottinghamshire 3 June 84"

252 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike / Creswell Notts Picket "Picket at Creswell Colliery 5.6.84"

253 - Photograph. Agency description: Food + drink - Drink (Alcohol) and NUM strike 84/85 / Women's support & action "For the landlady of the Moulders Arms PH, Barnsley, S Yorks, a staunch supporter of the strike, an embrace & kiss from a retired miner, Barnsley S Yorks February 85. 'It's about togetherness' "

254 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners strike 84/85 "Betty Cook, member of Barnsley Miners' Wives Action Group, her knee cap having been fractured by a truncheon on the picket line, above Woolley Edge colliery February 1985"

255 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM Strike 84/85 / Women's support & action "NUM supporter at Women Against Pit Closures International Women's Day Rally Chesterfield 9.3.85"

256 - Photograph. Agency description: Miners' strike 84/Women's Groups "Raising money at Wakefield Miners' Gala 84"

257 - Photograph. Agency description: "Scots Miners Wives". Format number: 002735 [?] [Women Against Pit Closures, International Women's Day Rally, Chesterfield]

258 - Photograph. Agency description: NUM strike 84/85 / Women's Action & Support "Women Against Pit Closures International Women's Day Rally at Chesterfield 9.3.85"

259 - Photograph. Miners strike / Yorkshire Gala "Standing ovation for Jack Taylor as strike hardens, Yorkshire Gala, June 84"

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