Durham Miners' Association

An appeal has been launched to trace Durham’s miners’ support group banners from the 1984-85 strike.

Easington MP Grahame Morris has called on the Government to extend the legislation providing pardons for miners wrongly convicted during the 1984-85 strike across the UK.

A blue plaque has been unveiled on a house once lived in by one of the founding members of the Durham Miners Association (DMA).

It isn’t clear how long John Forman lived at 16 Mowbray Street, though evidence suggests it was from 1882.

(Photo Ken Loach: credit Paul Crowther)

Ken Loach will speak at the memorial service for the leader of the first miners’ trade union.

The acclaimed filmmaker will give the address during the Thomas Hepburn Memorial Service at St Mary’s Church, Heworth on Saturday 14 October. The service begins at 11am.

Details of the cathedral service during this year’s Durham Miners Gala have been confirmed. Tens of thousands of people are preparing to gather in Durham City on Saturday 8 July 2023 for the 137^th Gala.

The DMA was represented at the funeral of union and community stalwart Brian Williams today (Tuesday 20 June 2023).

The 2023 Durham Miners Gala is dedicated to workers taking industrial action, organisers have announced.

The Durham Miners Association (DMA) is also calling on all workers not yet in a union to rise up and join the struggle for a fairer and more equal society.

Arrangements for the 2023 Durham Miners Gala have been confirmed. The 137^th Big Meeting, as the Gala is also known, will take place on Saturday 8 July 2023.

The Durham Miners Association (DMA) will continue its programme of community advice surgeries in Tanfield Lea on Friday 16 June 2023.

The DMA was represented at the funeral of much loved and respected community and union stalwart Les Simpson.

Born in 1939, Les was a miner at Usworth, Washington, from the age of 15 until 1973, when he joined the area drilling team working in collieries across the County Durham, before moving on to work in other coalfields.