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Back to Doncaster for Le Monde { 20 images } Created 12 May 2011

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  • Clouds come in over Bentley near Doncaster.<br />
Doncaster is a large town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster.<br />
According to the 2001 census, the urban sub-area of Doncaster had a population of 67,977 - together with Bentley and Armthorpe it forms an urban area with a population of 127,851. The wider metropolitan borough has a population of around 286,866.
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  • Rachel Horne in the train on her way from London to Doncaster.<br />
Rachel was born in 1984 during the UK Miners' Strike. The UK Miners' Strike was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trades union movement. It was also seen as a major political and ideological victory for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party.<br />
Today Rachel is an artist whose work focuses on the 1984 strike and the effect it still has on the local communities.
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  • Traditionally South Yorkshire is a rural area. During the industrial revolution it became one of the major coal mining and industrial site of the United Kingdom.
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  • Rachel in Bentley where she is about to settle. Rachel who moved to London seven years ago is about to move back to Doncaster to take part in an artist residency program. She will work with local schools to raise pupils awareness and understanding of the strike and its impact.
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  • The back garden of a typical mining family home near Bentley' pit. Since the end of the strike jobs have been sparse in the area and many families have struggled to make a decent living.
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  • A row of typical miner's homes in Bentley.
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  • Union representative Steve Stacey near the Stainforth pit. Steve started mining at the age of 15. He later work for at an aluminium factory where he stayed for 18 years before becoming a union worker.
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  • When she was 16 Rachel left home to go and study for her GCSE. This is the area where she used to live with some of her friends.
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  • On the outskirts of Doncaster the former industrial parks have been replaced by commercial centres, retail centres and call centres.
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  • Doncaster is famous for its traditional market and the quality of its local products.
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  • Doncaster city centre.
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  • Rachel in her grand mother's kitchen. Rachel's 97-year-old nan lives in Denaby, around the corner from the Miners' Welfare Club. She still has a coal scuttle outside her bungalow and a bucket of coal under the kitchen sink for her fire, to save her going outside to fill the scuttle too often.
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  • Rachel and her 97 years old grandmother. On the wall behind them a photograph of Rachel's grandfather proudly posing in his football kit.
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  • The sun sets over what used to be Bentley pit.
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  • Denaby and Cadeby Miners' Welfare Club near Conisbrough was once a thriving social and sports club with football and cricket pitches, a swimming bath and library as well as the social and entertainment rooms indoors.
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  • Rachel at the miners club. The Miners' Welfare Club in the village of Denaby was once an impressive building with plenty of facilities. As well as the bars and entertainment rooms indoors, it had sports facilities outside. Today it is a place where former miners meet for a cheap beer and a game of pool and talk of the good old days.
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  • Former miners John Huges (right) and Alf Cooper (left) having a beer at the The Miners' Welfare Club in Denaby.
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  • On the way to the Stainforth pit.
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  • Fine artist Rachel Horne grew up in Conisbrough near Doncaster.<br />
Her father, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfather were all coal miners so her mining heritage goes as far back as the 1850s.<br />
A Miners Strike baby, born in 1984 in the heart of the mining community at Denaby, she describes herself as being from "pure mining stock."<br />
Rachel grew up in Conisbrough and Denaby in the 1990s. Today she lives in London.
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  • The Stainforth pit is still in operation and will soon be the site of a carbon capture project.
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