The Emancipation of Labour Banner, 1939

A new Tutill banner was commissioned in 1939. The designs on both sides were taken from Tutills’ standard range of themes. On one side was “The Emancipation of Labour”. The first picture shows this as presumably the “A” side in the late 1950s, outside the old Miners’ Institutre in Bowburn.

The second photo shows “The Emancipation of Labour” as the “A” side at Durham Big Meeting.

On the other side was a design symbolising “The Brotherhood of Man”. It is seen here near The Wheatsheaf, before the parade through Bowburn commenced, in the 1950s.

In the following photograph, “The Brotherhood of Man” is apparently the leading “A” side, as the banner is being marched back from the Racecourse, past The Royal County Hotel.

This photograph inspired the design of “The March of Time”, which features on the 2006 Centenary Banner.