Outside the Rusty Dudley, homemade banners were erected saying: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, Thatcher's Britain has gone bust" and "That's another fine mess you've got us into Maggie".
In November , two teenage brothers were killed in Goldthorpe while collecting coal during the Miners' Strike when an embankment collapsed. A memorial to Paul Holmes, 15, and Darren, 14, showing a map of Yorkshire with a miner on each side was put up in However, the parade has not attracted the support of all of Goldthorpe's residents.
Caroline Woodcock said: "I agree completely what she did was wrong - closing the steel works, the pits - but this is a person and she's got a right to a peaceful funeral. St Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, around the country:.
Residents of a South Yorkshire village scarred by pit closures Village 'celebrates' ex-PM's funeral Miners in a former pit village in County Durham gathered during the funeral , exactly 20 years after their pit's closure A rose was unveiled in memory of Baroness Thatcher in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she was born Students at Somerville, Lady Thatcher's former Oxford University college, gathered to watch the funeral Former mineworkers held a minute's silence in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire , which they said was to mark the demise of their communities.
The coffin is carried on a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Artillery. Crowds watched in respectful silence as the procession began. Grandchildren Michael and Amanda Thatcher walk in front of the coffin. Mark and Sarah Thatcher watch as the coffin of his mother leaves St Paul's. After the service the Queen spoke to the Thatcher family.
Earlier in the morning spectators began to take up their position. The majority of those on the route were clearly supporters. A small number do not remember the former prime minister's rule so kindly. Some bought placards to express their view Lady Thatcher's coffin leaves the Palace of Westminster.
The hearse passes the gates of Downing Street. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scenes from the funeral of Baroness Thatcher. As Thatcher requested when she planned her own funeral, her body remained overnight in the chapel at the Palace of Westminster, where she served for more than half a century in both the lower and upper houses.
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The coffin is carried out of St. Paul's Cathedral after Margaret Thatcher's funeral service. Archbishop of London Richard Chartres speaks during the funeral service. Actress Joan Collins leaves after attending the funeral service. Amanda Thatcher, granddaughter of the "Iron Lady," gave a reading at the funeral service. Demonstrators jeer as the funeral procession travels toward St. Former South African President F.
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