Diggin’ up Gold in tribute to miners

By Admin
Published 6th Mar 2014, 10:42 BST
Updated 10th Jan 2017, 21:45 BST
A FORMER pit town remembered their mining heritage with a day of art, music and re-enactment.

The Diggin Up Black Gold event at Goldthorpe’s Union Jack Club on Saturday was dreamed up to mark the 30th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike.

Residents young and old re-created the soup kitchens of the strike and admired a mural created by residents of Goldthorpe with help from art and performance group Uplift.

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The Union Jack Club and the Reform Club also hosted live music, while a brass band entertained people in the High Street.

Goldthorpe folk also took part in plate painting and enjoyed story telling and folk singing.

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