Early Life
Kevin Barron, the son of Richard and Edna Barron, was born at Hazlewood Castle in Tadcaster, Yorkshire. He was educated at the Maltby Hall Secondary Modern School (same school as Fred Trueman, and now known as Maltby Comprehensive School) on Braithwell Road in Maltby; the University of Sheffield, and at Ruskin College where he gained a Diploma in Labour Studies in 1977, where he was a Militant tendency supporter.
On leaving school in 1962, Barron became an electrician at the local Maltby Colliery. He spent the next 23 years working in the coal industry. In 1982 he became president of the Rotherham Trades Union Congress. He was a member of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), who later expelled him for disloyalty. Once, on picketing duty outside Maltby colliery he was struck on the head by a police baton. He was a political ally of Arthur Scargill.
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