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 Hartley Colliery Hester Pit Banner, at Durham, 2013 It was at this Northumbrian pit where 204 pitmen were killed in 1862. |
Northumbrian Miners' Banners at Woodhorn Museum
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Having spent my 1950s childhood playing on pit-heaps, fishing for sticklebacks and tadpoles in pit ponds, building forts in the stacked pit props, and having a father & uncles down the pit I thought it would be good to share some of my Northumbrian mining heritage with the rest of the world. Alas, it wasn't to be. Yesterday I went to the Woodhorn Museum to photograph some Northumbrian Miners' Banners, but they seem very keen to have a monopoly on images of our past. I wasn't allowed to photograph the banners. To make up for that, today it is Durham Miners' Gala, 2013, at least I can photograph Durham banners. |
NUM, Pegswood Lodge Banner, Woodhorn Museum, 2013 |
NUM, Rising Sun Lodge Banner, 2013 |
 Northumberland NUM Banner at Durham Gala, 2013 No one objected to us photographing this one, one in the eye for Woodhorn Museum ;-) |
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and another Lodge Banner, 2013 |
Another Banner, 2013 |
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