Record-breaking crowd at 10th annual With Banners Held High festival
The crowd at the With Banners Held High festival in Wakefield, May 11, 2024
A RECORD-BREAKING crowd supported Saturday’s 10th annual With Banners Held High festival in Wakefield.
Forty trade union and campaign banners were marched through the West Yorkshire city to the street festival, celebrating the 1984-5 miners’ strike against pit closures and the labour and trade union movement with speeches, music and stalls.
Saturday’s festival was the biggest in the event’s history.
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