Slogan: Organise for Unity (both sides)
A five pointed gold star above the world which has a pair of clasped hands (signifying unity) across the front of it.
Slogan: Lest We Forget (both sides)
A yellow circle with a miner's lamp, a leek and a colliery winding tower, depicting the emblem of the National Union of Mineworkers, South Wales Area (back).
Slogan: Lest We Forget (both sides)
On the left of the banner are two miners down a mine, and on the right a picture of Will Paynter, NUM (South Wales Area) President. Both pictures are joined to the slogan by chains.
Slogan: Forward to Socialism / Ymlaen i Sosialaeth
At the top of the banner is a picture of a colliery and the surrounding area, including a public house called The Dragon. Below left is a picture of an old fashioned miner with a miner's lamp and pick. Below right is a modern miner with a mechanical drill and an electric lamp. Between the two miners is a mine. Bottom centre a yellow circle with a miner's lamp, a leek and a colliery winding tower, depicting the emblem of the National Union of Mineworkers, (South Wales Area), which is surrounded by a laurel wreath.
Slogan: Forward to Socialism / Ymlaen i Sosialaeth
Yellow circle with a miner's lamp, a leek and a colliery winding tower, depicting the emblem of the National Union of Mineworkers, (South Wales Area), which is surrounded by a laurel wreath.
Slogan: Dawn of a New Era: Nationalisation 1947
A miner's lamp above a golden laurel wreath. Below is a green field with a rising golden sun (both sides).
Seven Sisters Lodge Banner. [Image Available]
Slogan: International Friendship, Policy, Leadership, Unity (both sides)
Slogan: Y Byd Yn Un Mewn Heddwch (front)
On the left of the banner is a colliery winding tower. In the middle is the world with a dove and an olive branch above it (signifying peace). On the right is a miner (front)
A yellow circle with a miner's lamp, a leek and a colliery winding tower, depicting the emblem of the National Union of Mineworkers, South Wales Area (back).
Seven Sisters Lodge Banner. [Image Available]
Slogan: International Friendship, Policy, Leadership, Unity (both sides)
Slogan: Y Byd Yn Un Mewn Heddwch (front)
On the left of the banner is a colliery winding tower. In the middle is the world with a dove and an olive branch above it (signifying peace). On the right is a miner (front)
A yellow circle with a miner's lamp, a leek and a colliery winding tower, depicting the emblem of the National Union of Mineworkers, South Wales Area (back).
Slogan: Peace, Progress, Prosperity (both sides)
A picture of a miner looking at a colliery plan. He is standing in front of that colliery and the surrounding countryside
Slogan: Peace, Progress, Prosperity (both sides)
A yellow circle with a miner's lamp, a leek and a colliery winding tower, depicting the emblem of the National Union of Mineworkers, South Wales Area
Slogan: An Injury To One Is The Concern Of All
The slogan is from the American "Wobblies", an early twentieth century Marxist/Syndicalist labour movement. There is an inscription on the bottom right-hand corner 'Sutton G C G'.
Slogan: Unity is Strength (both sides)
This was the first Trade Union Banner to appear on the picket line outside Pentonville Jail in support of the five dockers leaders imprisoned in July 1972.
Slogan: Unity is Strength (both sides)
A yellow circle with a miner's lamp, a leek and a colliery winding tower, depicting the emblem of the National Union of Mineworkers, South Wales Area
Slogan: Proletarians of all Countries Unite. To the fighting British Miners' wives from the working women of Krasnaya Presna. Moscow, June 1926
Dai Lloyd Davies, Secretary of Mardy Lodge brought the banner back from Moscow. He had accepted it on behalf of the British workers and their wives from the women of Krasnaya Presna, when he’d been in Moscow during the 1926 lockout to acknowledge the financial support given to South Wales miners by the Russians.
It was deposited at the SWML in 1974, having been located in the office of the Communist Party in Cardiff.
Slogan: 1905 led to the victory of the Krasnaya Presna Working Women. Let your heroic struggle herald you victory over capitalism. Long live the proletarian revolution in Great Britain. Long live its skirmishers, the British Miners (back)
A five pointed star above the world which has a hammer and sickle over the front of it. This is surrounded by a wreath of wheat which has a ribbon with Russian writing wrapped around it
Dai Lloyd Davies, Secretary of Mardy Lodge brought the banner back from Moscow. He had accepted it on behalf of the British workers and their wives from the women of Krasnaya Presna, when he’d been in Moscow during the 1926 lockout to acknowledge the financial support given to South Wales miners by the Russians.
It was deposited at the SWML in 1974, having been located in the office of the Communist Party in Cardiff.
