COMMUNITIES HELD BACK: If the country’s former mining communities were brought together they would form the most deprived region in the UK, according to a new report published this week. The State of the Coalfields 2024 report said that 40 years after the Miners’ Strike began people living in former mining communities face lower pay …
Ashington, Northumberland. Famed for being the home of superstar footballers Bobby and Jack Charlton, not to mention Jackie Milburn, and once the largest mining town in Europe, known as Coaltown. The pit stood proudly at the centre of the community, with super pit Ellington — the Big E — just a few miles down the …
It was during the Miners’ Strike of 1984 that the paths of filmmaker Ken Loach and pitman’s daughter Heather Wood crossed. Ken says: “We were filming in the colliery club in Easington where women had set up one of the many canteens that provided free meals for striking miners and their families.” Heather and her …
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