Miner dressed as a bobby in the 1980s

A Miner wearing a Policeman’s helmet in the early 1980s: Perhaps an unintended symbol for social change in Britain, before the ‘bowler hat’ and ‘cloth cap’ were discarded. Fifteen years later a former militant trade union leader – when appointed Britain’s deputy Prime Minister – stated: ‘…all British people are now middleclass’. 

© Kenneth Campbell 2011
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