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“Suddenly there was silence. The colours danced, but everything else was still. For the banner we now saw was draped in black…”
Easington Lodge at the #DurhamMinersGala, just weeks after the Easington Colliery Disaster which claimed the lives of 83 men #OnThisDay in 1951. (1/3)
Easington Lodge at the #DurhamMinersGala, just weeks after the Easington Colliery Disaster which claimed the lives of 83 men #OnThisDay in 1951. (1/3)
The Labour MP JPW Mallalieu wrote a moving account of what he saw at that year’s Gala: “Through the silence the Easington Band began to play Gresford. When the tune came to an end there was again silence until Old Elvet gently relaxed his hold and there was space to move." (2/3)
"The great crowd set up a storm of cheering that could be heard in Paradise, dancers cavorted again & sunshine wiped away all thought of tears. Miners rub shoulders with death. They know how to face death. Last Saturday I saw, too, that they will not let death spoil life." (3/3)
