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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

7491

Title

MINERS' GALA, MANCHESTER [STALLS AND EVENING]

Producer

WFA

Date

1989

Gauge

U-matic HB

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

21 mins 18 secs

Description

Events at the 5th Anniversary Gala of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike at Manchester Town Hall on 4th March 1989. Footage of the afternoon stalls and displays including shots of Ruth and Eddie Frows' stall and them sitting with others. Shots of the goods being sold on stalls, commemorative cups, plates, tee shirts, badges, etc. Also cutaways of the closing songs of the entertainment in the evening including everybody singing 'We'll keep the red flag flying here'.

[Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]

 

 



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