Sunday means video time
Jul. 11th, 2010 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistletoeIt's gone to extra time so I am watching the golf. Meanwhile it's Sunday which means video time. Not much up from the Gala as yet but here are a couple. First a band outside the County doing one of their party pieces. Sorry the sound is a bit thin.
And secondly a Scottish Colliery Band leading the banner through home streets before setting off for Durham. This is the Buckhaven and Methil Miners Brass Band from Fife but they are in Thornley. The tune is not complete.
The other two banners are Thornley Primary School and the Scottish NUM. The Primary School banners actually started in my home town where a former miner friend of ours helped the children of Westlea to design their own banner and other schools in County Durham have done their own. Sadly, he is not well enough now to attend the Gala, but he has given something to the community that will outlive him.
This is the 126th Durham Miners Gala and though the mines have long gone it is a rallying point for all sorts of Unions to express their solidarity. I was standing next to a couple from Wigan most of the morning and there were banners and bands there from Fife to Brighton. Stick that in your Public Sector pipe Mr Cameron.
And secondly a Scottish Colliery Band leading the banner through home streets before setting off for Durham. This is the Buckhaven and Methil Miners Brass Band from Fife but they are in Thornley. The tune is not complete.
The other two banners are Thornley Primary School and the Scottish NUM. The Primary School banners actually started in my home town where a former miner friend of ours helped the children of Westlea to design their own banner and other schools in County Durham have done their own. Sadly, he is not well enough now to attend the Gala, but he has given something to the community that will outlive him.
This is the 126th Durham Miners Gala and though the mines have long gone it is a rallying point for all sorts of Unions to express their solidarity. I was standing next to a couple from Wigan most of the morning and there were banners and bands there from Fife to Brighton. Stick that in your Public Sector pipe Mr Cameron.
