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Digital copy of a photograph showing miners and their families, along with local politicians and union officials, marching back to Garw/Ffaldau Colliery days after the end of the miners' strike in March 1985. The procession set off from the Square in Pontycymmer and walked the mile or so to the pit in Blaengarw. Carrying the Coal Not Dole banner is Heather Griffiths. Also in the image is Marilyn Humphreys, miner Dennis Coates, welder Billy Dix and colliery electrician David Hughes.