Making food parcels for miners' families, Florence Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent 1984

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Date:1984

Description:The miner's strike of 1984/1985 saw many miner's families experience hardship as no money was coming in either through wages or benefits. Womens action groups set up food centres which packaged donated food into food parcels for distribution to needy people.
This image is reproduced by kind permission of the North Staffordshire Miner's Wives Action Group.

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Women's Organisations Trade Unions Strikes & Demonstrations Mining & Quarrying Food & Drink Charities Charitable Organisations & Fundraising

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