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They Knew What We Were Worth
If You Want to Change Things, You Cannit Change Them From the Floor
Nowt to Cling Onto
We Didn't Get a Vote
Pocket Money to Them, Holidays Abroad
But at the End of the Day, Nobody Went Away Without
Everybody Took Their Turn
An Extreme Belief That Democracy Would Prevail
I'll Never, Ever Be the Same Again
Like Black Diamonds
We Knew What They’d Say, What They’d Do
You Don't Know These Things
They Didn't Know the Half of What was Going On
He's Speaking for Me, and He’s Speaking for the Miners
I Had No Energy Like That Before
Them That Kept Us Going
Starting to Go Back In
They Worked Hard. Damned Hard
An International Socialism
There Was Nothing Left for Them, There Was Nothing Left for Us
We Always Thought We Would Actually Win
Moderation is Acquiescence
We’ll Sort it Out Ourselves
They Chased People Through Peoples’ Houses and Gardens
Coming Back Brockens
It Gives You a Family
Sharing Out What There is to Share
We Were at the Sharp End, Us
You Don't Know Where it Went. It Was Over in a Flash.
He Was Headed for Somewhere
So You Proved Your Point
Right Up to the Last Day
He’ll Not Be Forgiven for What Harm He Did
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at The Warehouse, Bishop Auckland
Going Back Brockens installed at St. Mary's Church, Horden
Going Back Brockens installed at St. Mary's Church, Horden
Going Back Brockens installed at St. Mary's Church, Horden
Going Back Brockens installed at St. Mary's Church, Horden
Going Back Brockens installed at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Going Back Brockens installed at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Going Back Brockens installed at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Going Back Brockens installed at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Going Back Brockens installed at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Going Back Brockens was a major exhibition from award-winning artist Narbi Price and acclaimed writer Mark Hudson, sharing stories of hope and aspiration in mining communities 40 years after the Miners’ Strike. The show featured 43 new paintings by Narbi depicting locations across County Durham connected to the mining industry as they are now, alongside a sound installation created by Mark using interviews recorded with the people of Horden between 1991 – 92, several years after the Miners’ Strike. Following the initial display of the exhibition in locations throughout County Durham, including Bishop Auckland, the Durham Miners’ Gala and Horden, the first museum gallery showing of Going Back Brockens was at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. The exhibition also featured Where We Belong, a series of short films by Carl Joyce inspired by Mark Hudson’s evocative book Coming Back Brockens.

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All images courtesy of the artist. © Narbi Price 2010-2025. All Rights Reserved.

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