August Bank Holiday in Blackpool, 1971. Two elderly men in flat caps and coats asleep on the beachPhotograph: Don McPhee/GuardianGirl ballet dancers from the Suffield-Tweedy school in Manchester during the London Festival Ballet's The Nutcracker rehearsal, 1971Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianThe last pit ponies, Wheldale colliery, 1972Photograph: Don McPhee/Guardian
Catholic children being evacuated from Belfast to Dublin, 1972Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianThe Ulster Defence Association (UDA) confront the army in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1972Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianHarold Wilson lighting his pipe at the Huyton Labour Club in 1974Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianRefugees from the partition of Cyprus following the Turkish invasion of that year in a refugee camp, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1974Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianJeremy Thorpe, sometime leader of the Liberal Party, who lost his seat in parliament after he was accused of conspiring to murder a man who was believed to be his lover, a charge of which he was acquitted. Coventry, 1976Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianA man collects firewood from derelict buildings in Liverpool, 1978Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianBoys playing football in Oldham, 1982Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianAnglican Whitsuntide walk, Manchester, a church man pulls a choirboy's hair, 1980Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianA horse 'kisses' a woman at the last Belle Vue Christmas Circus, 1981 Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianA Teddy boy shows off his tattoo at a gathering of Teddy boys, Manchester, c1983Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianFace off between an NUM picket and lines of police, who have removed their numbers from their coat shoulders, in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave. During late May and early June 1984, the Yorkshire coking plant, which was supplying fuel to Scunthorpe steel works, saw one of the bloodiest confrontations in the Miners' Strike, when 5,000 pickets were confronted by a similar number of police with riot shields, horses and dogsPhotograph: Don McPhee/GuardianMounted police charge through picket lines, in what became known as the Battle of Orgreave - one of the bloodiest confrontations in the industrial disputePhotograph: Don McPhee/GuardianAn abandoned mini car with sheep in heavy snow in the Peak District, near Buxton, Derbyshire, c1984Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianPolice digging up parts of Saddleworth moor, searching for the child victims of the Moors Murders, 1986Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianFarmers at Shire Horse Sale in Denby Dale, 1989Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianWomen workers wearing rain capes returning to their camp in Botshabelo, South Africa, 1990Photograph: Don McPhee/GuardianThe landscape of Coverdale, YorkshirePhotograph: Don McPhee/GuardianAlistair Campbell and Tony Blair during the Dudley West by-election, 1994Photograph: Don McPhee/Guardian
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