Miners’ strike football match, 1984The Guardian photographer Denis Thorpe was driving through Nottinghamshire in March 1984, after visiting a colliery where there had been a confrontation between police and pickets, when he spotted a pit head in the distance. As he drove closer, he could see a crowd, so he went to investigate. The police and pickets were playing football. It was one of those extraordinary moments, says Thorpe. It reminded me of the Christmas Day truce during the first

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The Great Wall of China in a snowstorm

the light falling on their faces

Chris Riddell original illustration

the principal tenet of a blinding photograph

It is one of the abiding images of the 1984 coal strike - Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer

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to which it was linked by the river Reie

The town’s iconic seafront bisects the picture

He was so badly shaken

“I start early and I stay late

and it’s a spectacle not to be missed