The second of four camera rolls produced by Trade Films of miners from Wearmouth Colliery near Sunderland marching back to work at the end of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike on the 5th March 1985. Alongside banners, family and supports the miners march from the Wearmouth Miners' Welfare Hall to the colliery itself passing both locals and the police watching over them. In the car park of the Wearmouth Miners' Welfare Hall crowds of men and their families gather around chatting. A...

The second of four camera rolls produced by Trade Films of miners from Wearmouth Colliery near Sunderland marching back to work at the end of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike on the 5th March 1985. Alongside banners, family and supports the miners march from the Wearmouth Miners' Welfare Hall to the colliery itself passing both locals and the police watching over them. In the car park of the Wearmouth Miners' Welfare Hall crowds of men and their families gather around chatting. A musical band begin to play as two women walk past through the crowd carrying a banner for the Chester-Le-Street Miners Support Group. On the reverse of the banner the words ‘Women Against Pit Closures’. The music stops and Dave Hopper from the Wearmouth Lodge of the National Union of Mineworkers comes forward and addresses the crowd with a megaphone about the proceedings of the day. Standing in the entranceway of the welfare hall Dave Hooper speaks with those at the front of the procession, across the road watching are three policemen and a photographer taking shots of the scene. As the various banners take their positions at the rear, those at the front continue to wait for the off. Alongside Dave Hopper is Harry Dinning another member of the Wearmouth Lodge. To the tune of the football chant ‘Here We Go’ the band leads the Wearmouth Lodge banner out of the grounds of the welfare hall onto a main road followed by the rest of the procession. At a road junction a small crowd stand waiting on the march to pass them by, the sound of band performing can heard in the distance. The procession arrives and turns left into another road. A group of women proudly marching beside their banner sing a protest song as the pass, one of the banners featured reads Sacriston Women Against Put Closures. The procession makes its their way along a narrow alleyway, through a housing estate and past a church with the band at the front playing ‘The Red Flag’. As it passes a local school some of the teenage pupils inside lean out of windows to watch and wave. The camera joins the procession behind one of the banners as it passes terraced streets with some locals standing on the street corners watching. In the distance the Wearmouth Colliery tower with women at the front of the march singing. The procession passes a police van parked along a road with those onboard watching on. As they pass a building inside the colliery the woman can he heard singing ‘I’d Rather be a Picket than a Scab’. Someone inside watches as the procession passes. Four miners in overalls and helmets look out from a small window, many in the crowd shout at them ‘Scab!’ as they pass. Policemen stand beside vans as the procession makes its way past and over a bridge, a photographer captures images of the scene. In the distance more miners watching as the procession approaches, on seeing them the crowd begin to shout ‘Scabs!’.