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Sheffield to honour the chronicler of the miners’ strike
PETER LAZENBY reminisces about the ‘lovely feller’ and much-missed photographer Martin Jenkinson
The first national women's rally in support of striking miners at Barnsley Civic Hall
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REMEMBER the photograph of a grinning striking miner, wearing a toy policeman’s helmet, “inspecting” a line of police officers during the miners’ strike in 1984?
Or the young miners fleeing around an ice cream van as police rioted at Orgreave coke depot in South Yorkshire? Or the arrest of miners’ union President Arthur Scargill?
Many people will remember the images, but probably have little knowledge of the photographer responsible for them. They were the work of freelance snapper Martin Jenkinson, who died from cancer in February 2012.
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