JemmaPage published Tributes to former Gedling pit worker who fought for equal pay

A former canteen worker who fought for equal pay for women at a Nottinghamshire pit has been laid to rest.
Ann Ashmore (nee Evans), who died at the age of 67 after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, spent 19 years working the night shift in Gedling Colliery's canteen.
And after a visit to London with the coal miner's union leader in the early 1980s, Mrs Ashmore, who came to Nottingham from Neath Port Talbot, in Wales, almost 60 years ago, succeeded in her quest for.