GALA Exhibition
Friday 26th July –
Saturday 31st August 2013
Private view:
Friday 26th July 6pm – 9pm
The Outsiders - 77 Quayside
Newcastle Upon Tyne - NE1 3DE
Free Admission
Ashes and Diamonds
A memorial exhibition
to the Miners' strike
1984 - 1985
by Darren Coffield
Exhibitions
- Market Hall, Chesterfield
May Day 2nd May 2011 - Northern College, Barnsley
15th May - 14th July 2011 - Hurst House, Chesterfield
19th – 23rd September 2011 - Wortley Hall, Sheffield
7th –13th November 2011 - Durham
5th July 2012
Watch video
BBC1, 23 March 1984:
BBC1 clock and start of Nine O'Clock News with John Humphrys. Headlines, then first stories about Miners' strike and Sarah Tisdall case.
My former workmates and their communities have been blowtorched from history in a form of ’political ethnic cleansing’, almost no trace of our once proud industry remains and the communities that served that industry have been abandoned by successive governments. The aim of this exhibition is to raise awareness of that momentous and honourable fight to protect one of Britain’s greatest industries, whilst highlighting present day issues, such as the fact that both Tory and Labour Governments have stolen billions of pounds from the Mineworkers Pension Fund, whilst those who worked the mines have been left to rot and abandoned.
John Dunn
ex Derbyshire National
Union of Mineworkers
Contact
For exhibition enquiries please contact:
Special Projects Manager
Dermot Smyth at Fantastic Partners
dermot@fantastic-partners.com
+44 (0) 789 999 0890
Chris Ford at Lazarides
chris@lazinc.com
+44 (0) 207 636 5443
For media enquiries and high resolution imagery contact:
Julia Huff at Purple PR
Julia@purplepr.com
+44 (0) 207 434 7061
Charlotte Sluter at Purple PR
charlotte@purplepr.com
+44 (0) 207 434 7069
If you want to send a message to Darren please email:
BBC1, 23 March 1984
Nine O'Clock News with John Humphrys
Headlines, then first stories about Miners' strike and Sarah Tisdall case.