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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Ranjit Dhaliwal

Orgreave, Yorkshire, 1984

Orgreave, 1984 by Don McPhee
Striking miner, George 'Geordie' Brealey, confronts a line of police officers while wearing a toy helmet at Orgreave coaking plant near Rotherham, Yorkshire. The subsequent outbreak of violence between police and pickets, known as the 'battle of Orgreave', was one of the most bloody and controversial of the 1984-85 miner's strike
Illustration: Photograph: Don McPhee for the Guardian
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