NEVER THE SAME AGAIN

20 years on from The Miners' Strike
April 26th '04 - May 13th '04

Featuring the photographs of Ross Murray and Douglas Robertson Edinburgh May Day committee invites you to the launch of our annual May Day celebrations with the opening of the exhibition on:

With an opening address from Colin Fox MSP Douglas Robertson was involved in the support groups at the time of the strike in '84-'85. Ross Murray has been working with ex-miners and their families in Gorebridge over the last few years for the Workers Education Association. Ross has gone back this week to interview women who were heavily involved at the time, revealing the memories and depth of feeling that is still felt about the strike today in the ex-mining communities.

"Memories of the strike....bananas, given so many bashed bananas from the grocer, my house as a soup kitchen, begging the building society for a bit of space, oh aye, getting harrassed by the police in the car with the kids trying to visit their gran, Jackie on the doorstep, not coming in cause he was going back after 8 months, I made him a cuppa anyway, we're still friends. Now I'm a manager at a childrens centre, we can't strike with the nursery nurses because the children are so vulnerable but I told them that if it ended up me being the only senior on duty and there was a picket line then the centre wouldn't open. Frank never crossed the picket line. Neither will I."

Winnie McIlhone