‘Durham’s other cathedral’: mining union hall reopens after £14m restoration
Considered one of world’s finest trade union buildings and famous for its ‘pitmen’s parliament’, Redhills was built on a grand scaleOutside the impressively grand, Edwardian baroque building in Durham are two wooden benches, each dedicated to men who died too young.They were, the...
<p>Considered one of world’s finest trade union buildings and famous for its ‘pitmen’s parliament’, Redhills was built on a grand scale</p><p>Outside the impressively grand, Edwardian baroque building in Durham are two wooden benches, each dedicated to men who died too young.</p><p>They were, the inscription reads, both “sacked and victimised” during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Yet they’re in grounds that look as if they might have been owned by rich, exploitative mine owners.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/04/durham-mining-union-hall-redhills-reopens-after-14m-pounds-restoration">Continue reading...</a>
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