Durham Miners' Association

Singer songwriter Joe Solo will perform at the 2024 Durham Miners Gala. The musician and activist will sing for the Gala crowds after first marching through the city with Yorkshire’s Hatfield Brigade.

The 2024 Durham Miners Gala will mark the 40^th anniversary of the Miners Strike, organisers have said. The Durham Miners Association (DMA) has also announced its line up of platform speakers for the 138^th Big Meeting.

Former mineworkers are invited to attend for free Ashington AFC’s home game this Saturday, April 13.The club is making the offer to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984-85 Miners Strike. The opposition is Grantham Town.

Everyone at the DMA was saddened to learn of the passing of Dave Lewis.

Dave was a founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), campaigning and raising funds throughout and beyond the 1984-85 strike.

In early October, a wreath was laid on behalf of the Durham Miners Association (DMA) by Graeme Atkinson in Rethymno on the Greek island of Crete in memory of the martyred US miners’ leader, Louis Tikas, who was born there in 1886.

The official film of the 2023 Durham Miners Gala will premiere online on Monday 20 November at 7pm.

There was standing room only as people remembered Thomas Hepburn, founder of the first miners trade union on Saturday (October 14).

And filmmaker Ken Loach received a standing ovation for his address drawing learning and inspiration from Tommy’s life.

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.