‘MARIA WAS THE MINERS’ HEROINE’
Richard Carr has vivid memories of the coal miners’ strike in the UK in the mid-1980s. “I grew up in a pit village in County Durham,” he reveals. “I remember food collections being held for the striking miners’ families, and throwing snowballs at the ‘scab buses’ that passed our school.”
‘Maria removed a constable’s cap, struck him and waved it in the air’
