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Miners' Strike - 1984

 

Tony Richards sent us of these excellent photographs of the 1984 Miners' Strike.

 

Pickets from South Wales Trying to Stop Workers at

Daw Mill Colliery from Going to Work

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Daw Mill Colliery in the Midlands & The Police

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Daw Mill Colliery with Buses of Men Going to Work

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Police & Pickets at Daw Mill Colliery

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Police & Pickets Fighting at Daw Mill Colliery

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Pickets Returning to Buses to Go Home

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Merthyr Vale Pickets at Cynheidre Colliery

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Police & Pickets at Cynheidre Colliery

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Merthyr Vale Boys at a Pub in Leicester

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Police Stopping Traffic on M4 for Coal Lorries to Pass

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Coal Lorries on the M4

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Coal Lorries on the M4

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

D. Jones, K. Allan & T. Richards on Railway Bridge

Near Didcot Power Station

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Trains at Didcot Power Station

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Merthyr Vale Pickets Outside Didcot Power Station

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Didcot Power Station

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Euro M.P. & Pickets

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Euro M.P. & Merthyr Vale Pickets

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Peace Fair at Farrington

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Bill King & Boys at Peace Fair

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Bill Williams Having Five!

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Bill King & Boys

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Merthyr Vale Boys at the Fair

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Bill King Peace at the Fire

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

May Day Fair

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Smith House at Ruskin College, Oxford

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Len Horrell at Smith House

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Pickets in Smith House

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Peoples Festival in Liverpool

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

T. Williams Washing Up at Ruskin College

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

B. Anderson & D. Jones in Liverpool

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Organ in Liverpool

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

P. Manns in Liverpool

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Liverpool

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

Liverpool Tower

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

An Amazing Sight on the Way to Oxford!

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

The Boys Picking Plums on the Way Home from Oxford

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

Unknown

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

   

D. Broad & D. Jones in Smith House

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

D. Jones, K. Allan & D. Broad on Railway Bridge

Near Didcot Power Station

(Copyright Mr. A.J. Richards, with permission for you to print)

 

The following photographs are courtesy of Wilfred Thomas:

 

B5 Police Group Stationed at Phurnacite Power Plant, Ambercwmboi

(Photograph Courtesy of Wilfred Thomas)

B5 Police Group Stationed at Phurnacite Power Plant, Ambercwmboi

(Photograph Courtesy of Wilfred Thomas)

   

B5 Police Group Stationed at Phurnacite Power Plant, Ambercwmboi

(Photograph Courtesy of Wilfred Thomas)

B5 Police Group at Nantgarw Colliery at the end of the Miners' Strike

(Photograph Courtesy of Wilfred Thomas)

 

The following photographs are courtesy of Dick Edwards:

 

One Officer Worker Breaks the Strike - January 1985

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

Strikers Attack the Workers Car - January 1985

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

   

One Striker Arrested After Attacking the Car - January 1985

(Photograph Courtesy of Dick Edwards)

 

 
   
 

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