Fig 1: Notts Area NUM working miners protest at Berry Hill Park, Mansfield, on 1st May 1984. Photo Credit – Chad newspaper
Notts Area NUM working miners protest
Around 5,000 Notts Area NUM working miners protested at the Area HQ prior to an Area Executive meeting on 1st May 1984. They were met with a counter protest by around 1,500 pro strike NUM members who occupied the HQ buildings.
Fig 2: A line of police divide the working miners on Berry Hill Park and the striking miners who occupied the Nottingham Area NUM HQ. Photo Credit – Chad newspaper
Fig 3: Minutes of Nottingham Area NUM Area Executive meeting, 1st May 1984. Source – Nottingham Area NUM Minutes, 1984, p161.
Fig 4: Striking miners and supporters occupy the Nottingham Area NUM HQ at the Right to Work rally, 1st May 1984. Photo Credit – Chad newspaper
Fig 5: Press report on the working miners protest on 1st May 1984. Source – Chad newspaper, 3rd May 1984.
Fig 6: Ray Chadburn, Nottingham Area NUM President, addresses the Right to Work working miners rally at Berry Hill Park, Mansfield, on 1st May 1984. Photo Credit – County under Siege.
Fig 7: Working Notts NUM members protest outside the Nottingham Area NUM HQ on 1st May 1984. Photo Credit – Chad newspaper.
Fig 8: Chad report on the working miners rally on 1st May 1984. Source – Chad newspaper, 3rd May 1984.
“The Notts men want a ballot and they will not take strike action without one”. Colin Bottomore, NUM Branch Secretary, Bentinck Colliery.
“I appeal to you, lets be united, lets not go backwards. We would be going back to Spencerism, is that what you want”? Ray Chadburn, Nottingham Area NUM President.