Woodhorn Colliery Museum

As it is the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike we had an outing to Woodhorn. It was quite an emotional visit, not just revisiting memories of the hardships suffered then, and the support we tried to give the families, but also, seeing in the exhibition the dangers miners endured in the past. A knock on the door to tell a woman she was a widow due to a mining accident meant she was homeless with no pension or compensation. This quote, made by Attlee only 5 years after the NHS and our Welfare State was set up, promising to care for our citizens "from the cradle to the grave," seems even more relevant now, 60 years later.

To clear our heads we had an hour walking by the coast before driving to babysit in Whitley Bay. The best fish and chips ever beckon.