Coalfields: A Legacy Of The Miners’ Strike

Photographer Andrew Foley examines the changed landscape of mining communities since the 1984-85 strike through contemporary images from the sites of all 44 collieries in the Barnsley, Doncaster and South Yorkshire Coalfields that were open immediately prior to the dispute. Each image is accompanied by information on workforce numbers and coal tonnage preceding the dispute, together with details of the colliery's fate and future usage of the site.

Visitors will also be able to view Mike Figgis' 2001 documentary about Jeremy Deller's 'The Battle of Orgreave'; a re-enactment of the confrontation between striking miners and the police that occurred at the Orgreave Coking Plant in Yorkshire on 18 June 1984. Orchestrated by historical re-enactment expert Howard Giles, more than 800 people participated; many of them former miners and a few former policemen, and relived the events from 1984.