It`s a beautiful morning in Eckington Town Centre, and it`s Easter Market Day. Face Painting and Easter Bonnet for the children, lots of stalls, and shops and cafe`s all open. So please pop along, it`s on 9am till 3pm.🥰
DOLE NOT COAL.
March 2024, sees the 40th anniversary of the start of the Miners`s Strike, and a commemorative event will be held at Eckington Miners Welfare.
Between 2009 and 2010, a group of Eckington guys, travelled around our local area as well as up and down the country, to film interviews with people who were prominent supporters of the 84-85 Miners Strike, and to produce a film to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the dispute.
The film is told only from the striking miners side, and it had its premiere at the Winding Wheel in Chesterfield in 2010 to a packed audience.
This is the film, which also features a specially written soundtrack buy a local musician.
Through interviews with Tony Benn, and Dennis Skinner amongst others, Dole not Coal pays testimony to the people and politicians supporting the 84-85 strike, telling how it came about, the legacy, and effect on the striking miners in a gripping dispute, unimaginable in modern Britain, but one that has seemingly been dismissed from history over the years, for all but those involved.
High quality DVD`s, complete with credits, are available to buy from Eckington Miners Welfare, priced £5.00.
" This was civil war, that`s how the Tories fought it, and that`s how the miners saw it."
TONY BENN.
A short video from this morning of the fabulous Friday Market, a now great regular event which continues to go from strength to strength. #love #your #market
Remembrance Day Service Timelapse.
Eckington`s First Poppy Appeal Launch 2014.
Bus Service Cancellation In Killamarsh.
Battle of The Somme - 1st July 1916.