(See Saturday's post for piece about 30th Anniversary of Battle Of Orgreave).
Lesley Boulton is the subject of this famous photograph by John Harris who spent a year on the picket lines photographing key moments of the Miners Strike.
Lesley was a member of Women Against Pit Closures and she went along to Orgreave on 18th June 1984 - the day that became known as the Battle of Orgreave, a bloody battle between pickets and police. In John Harris' iconic photograph, Lesley is holding a camera and cowering from a mounted policeman with a baton raised - about to crack her on the head. It became an emblem of the strike, appearing on badges, banners and posters
In the video Lesley Boulton talks about the iconic photo taken by John Harris at Orgreave during the miners strike of 1984
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