Your memories of The Strike

I guess also in terms of the football even in those difficult times we still had players who would walk into other teams in the division (unlike now). I remember the coolness of Paul Futcher a consummate defender with great touch who looked unflappable ( unless he was scoring one of his legendary own goals) probably my favourite player to this day.

The Main thing I remember of Oakwell during this time was the contrasts yo those explosions of joy a few short years earlier when Clarke and Glavin had led us out of the wilderness. Anyone who wasn't around at that time can't appreciate the changes it brought to our town. We were a proud town that worked hard with endeavour and skill in the mist difficult of circumstances and the town was vibrant and alive. Contrast this to what it's like now dishevelled and depressed.

When we got promoted to the Premiership under Danny it felt like a healing in some ways a 2 fingers up **** you to everybody.

 

i remembered getting nabbed by the boys in blue with 8 bags of coke at chapletown coking plant

 

me and me fatha got caught up there,the cops slit our bags and kicked the coke all over the lane,,,,it had took us best part of 6 or 7 hours to get half a dozen bags and it was feezing.

 

I often thought that the promotion to the premiership was like sticking two fingers up to everybody,its the first thing we'd had to smile about,not just as a club but as a town for years.

 

Totally agree with that. I've no truck with killing animals for fun, but killing to eat is an entirely different matter, particularly in the situation you were in.

 

they waited for me to carry them down the hill first ,then locked me up at eccesfield cop shop for a couple of hours

 

thanks for that jay,i can never understand anyone who eats supermarket meat standing the morale high ground with someone like myself who hunts,both with dogs and guns,everything I get gets eaten by us or by the pensioners that come into my shop who are still partial to some game,the meat couldn't be more free range and ethical to eat.These pensioners get fed for free by me with their favourite being pigeon.
I understand the likes or mr c who hate the thought of killing animals full stop so refuse to eat any meat at all,but somebody who looks for the cheapest chicken on the shelf hasn't got a clue.

 

they did us too mate,we'd even loaded to coke into the car before they slit the bags.basterds,full stop.

I don't like seeing anyone set about by this government now but those tawts id love to see suffer,i hope they get their pension cut and have to work while 70 like the fcukin rest of us.

 

Too right I don't really get hunting for fun but hunting for good is completely different and most families in the strike wouldn't have got by without a bit of hunted meat. The stuff that goes on in battery farms now that's cruelty.

 

same here they made me take the bags across the road to the main plant,i remembered it was xmas time.and a old copper said to the one that nicked me,let him go it xmas ,but the **** said no am doing him.which pit did you work at

 

cortonwood

 

darield main i left in 1988

 

I did a lot of my picketing with darfield main lads,i lived down the valley

I didn't finish in the pits till 1997 and then went back in 2007 to work in a small mine to keep my shop afloat as the recession was shafting us good and proper.

 

My dad n me having our dinners in the soup kitchen at the Elsecar miners welfare (next to the Birdcage......oh the memories,or lack of ).

All the women running it used to run outside to give the scab bus verbal and grief then back inside serving as normal. They were scarier than any bloke I knew


Barrow n Barnsley Main 83 - 88

 

Columbian?

 

With regards to the strike itself

We got married that year, so money was extremely tight. However, we were fully aware we were still far better off than some of our fellow Dodworthers. There was a regular collection point at the Dodworth Miners' Welfare (since demolished) for things like money, food, clothing collections. We contributed as much as we could (tinned food especially) to these collections. When December came round, we purchased toys for various ages for the children of the miners.
It seemed all the pubs in the village also had collection tins on the bar at the time, usually full. It was heartbreaking to see hard working families being made to suffer so much & so unnecessarily by that bunch of despicable liars in Government.

 

I don't think "Dodworthers" is the correct plural here Sir

I am pretty sure its "Dodderers"

and especially in your case.... well so Laura telled me.

 

Re: I don't think "Dodworthers" is the correct plural here Sir

Tsk, tsk, tsk.

 

aye I know ... that bloody kid o' thine

turning into a reyt bloody hooligan innit


but I blame the parents.

 

Re: aye I know ... that bloody kid o' thine

We're taking her back to uni tomorrow. These past few weeks have flown by. Probably won't see her again till the Easter holiday.