TitlePoster - Mining: Houghton Main fights on
ReferencePOSTER/SUBJ/MINING/0008
Date
1993
Production date 1993 - 1993
Scope and ContentPoster with images of a ballon with a No pit closures banner and a protest outside a pit and the text: Houghton Main fights on! On 13th October 1992, the Government announced plans to close 31 pits, including Houghton Main in South Yorkshire. The Houghton Main Women Against Pit Closures camp was set up on 13th January 1993, one of seven women's pit camps seeking to defence jobs and mining communities and campaigning for a sane and long-term energy policy. On of the highlights of the camp's activities came on 5th March 1993, when women from the camp took off in a balloon on the eve of the ballot for industrial action by the NUM and NACODS. On 26th March 1993, local schoolchildren protested against pit closures, displaying placards, each bearing the name of one of the 125 pits closed since 1985
Extent1 poster
Physical descriptionDimensions (Width x Height): 62cm x 43cm. Paper, colour
LanguageEnglish
Persons keywordNational Union of Mineworkers, National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers, Houghton Main Colliery, Women Against Pit Closures
SubjectMiners, Mine closures
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationAA Posters Drawer 23 - Mining Folder 1 (Room 30)