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Beginning Of Durham Miners Association - South Hetton (sout0034)

Welfare Park, Old Pavilion
Welfare Park, New Pavilion and Bowling Green

Photograph of a handbill addressed To Banksmen, Brakesmen, Deputies, and to all that work in and about the Pit of South Hetton Colliery, by the Committee of Management of South Hetton Colliery, appealing to them to awake from your long deep sleep and join the Durham Miners' Association so that the conditions and wages of the workers in the colliery may be improved

Beginning Of Durham Miners Association - South Hetton

Photograph of a handbill addressed To Banksmen, Brakesmen, Deputies, and to all that work in and about the Pit of South Hetton Colliery, by the Committee of Management of South Hetton Colliery, appealing to them to awake from your long deep sleep and join the Durham Miners' Association so that the conditions and wages of the workers in the colliery may be improved

Date: 1870


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