Catalogue Number
NMLH.2002.17
Object Name
Banner
Title
'Eastenders Against Pit Closures. Tower Hamlets Miners Support Group.'
Place
Tower Hamlets, London, UK
People
Tower Hamlets Miners Support Group,Tony Benn, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
Events
1993 Pit Closures, 1984-85 Miners' Strike
Date
1992
Creator(s)Tower Hamlet's Miners Support Group
Description
The banner is red, with white writing saying 'Eastenders Against Pit Closures. Tower Hamlets Miners Support Group'. A yellow line representing the river Thames runs below the group name, with a coal mining pithead wheel in the bend of the river.
This banner was produced by the Tower Hamlets Miners Support Group, founded in October 1992, which campaigned on behalf of miners nationally until October 1994. It received support from the National Union of Teachers, the National Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians and Tower Hamlets Trades Council. The design uses the line of the River Thames, now famous for its use in the soap opera 'Eastenders', but with a pithead wheel placed within the Isle of Dogs, where the banner was made.
The banner was carried at rallies and demonstrations including at a public meeting in east London on 21 January 1993 addressed by Labour MP Tony Benn, a long-standing friend of the National Union of Mineworkersâ (NUM) leader Arthur Scargill, and vocal supporter of the 1984 to 1985 Minersâ Strike. The banner was also used at an event in Frickley, Yorkshire on 13 March 1993, commemorating the deaths of two men who died supporting the miners in 1984.
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