Badge Making
Workshops.

Each pit had its own mining badges, that were produced for different reasons and occasions. The badges were usually produced during industrial disputes or following mining disasters and were often sold to raise funds.

The greatest number of badges were produced during and after the 1984-85 miners’ strike.

The badges came in various shapes and colours but usually gave the name of the National Union of Mineworkers, Lodge or area, as well as a particular symbol such as a mining lamp or shovel.

A series of community badge making workshops took place where people were invited to look at the history of badges, the significance of them and the messages used on them during the lifetime of the pits and to help design a new community mining badge for Silverdale.