Sixteen miners donned their steel hats and entered the cage at Boldon Colliery for the last time on Thursday, June 24, 1982Sixteen miners donned their steel hats and entered the cage at Boldon Colliery for the last time on Thursday, June 24, 1982
Sixteen miners donned their steel hats and entered the cage at Boldon Colliery for the last time on Thursday, June 24, 1982

Miners' Strike 35 years on: 15 pictures of life down the pit in South Tyneside

This week marks 35 years since the end of the miners’ strike so we have looked back to what life was like for miners in the borough back in the day.
By Sarah Sinclair
Published 5th Mar 2020, 16:45 BST
Updated 6th Mar 2020, 10:32 BST

Join us on a trip down memory lane, as we take a look back at life down the pits in South Tyneside.

Boldon Colliery, which closed in 1982.

9. Boldon Colliery closure, 1982

Boldon Colliery, which closed in 1982. Photo: SE

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Boldon Colliery pit head and employees in November 1969.

10. Boldon Colliery, 1969

Boldon Colliery pit head and employees in November 1969. Photo: Shields Gazette

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Arthur Blenkinsop, Labour candidate for South Shields, talking to miners George Falconer, Bill Bissett, Ronnie Moffatt, during a visit to Westoe Colliery in October 1964.

11. Can I count on your vote? 1964

Arthur Blenkinsop, Labour candidate for South Shields, talking to miners George Falconer, Bill Bissett, Ronnie Moffatt, during a visit to Westoe Colliery in October 1964. Photo: Shields Gazette

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The Westoe Lodge banner is paraded through the streets of Durham at the Miners' Gala in 1983.

12. Marching band, 1983

The Westoe Lodge banner is paraded through the streets of Durham at the Miners' Gala in 1983. Photo: Hartlepool Mail

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