The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation was a trade union that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield in North West England from 1881 until it became the Lancashire area of the National Union of
The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Federation headquarters in Bolton
Miners outside Tyldesley Miners Hall during the 1926 general strike
Badge of the North West Area NUM
John McGurk
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John McGurk was a British coal miner and trade unionist.
John McGurk, on right, with Henry Roughley, Thomas Greenall and Henry Twist visiting the Western Front in the First World War, believed to be to discuss mining under enemy lines