The poet laureate and the lost villages of Durham’s coalfield

The poet laureate Simon Armitage and his band are reviving memories of Country Durham’s lost villages. In the 1950s so-called Category D communities, many based arounds coalmines, were declared no longer viable and their decline eventually saw many of them disappear.

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