General Strike Memento 1926

Description

The brass original, in the form of a miner's lamp was made to raise funds for the striker's families. A portrait on the banner of Harton and Westoe Miners Lodge shows A.J. Cook, secretary of the Miner's Federation of Great Britain (1924-31) wearing one of these mementoes. 1926. Beamish Museum, Co. Durham. Height 27mm