Lest we forget!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...y-the-strike-that-rocked-britain-1637617.html

 

Amazing photographs.

nt

 

agree nt

 

That's when real industry was replaced by virtual industry. Look where that's got us now.

 

sorry but don't see anyone striking or helping me after i've lost my job

and yes thousands have gone, i'm expected to get other work at minimum wage, and start again.
i really do feel sorry for the miners but ffs sake move on

 

lol @ ryhill

a lot of people round here used what happened to become what they claim to despise.
scrounging Barstewards.theres members of my own family still use fact that theres no pits as an excuse for not workin
i'll admit that the way it happened was **** but the bigger picture is it saved me from a life of digging.
was 13 at the time and would have been pit fodder if cortonwood was still there.
like ya say.get over it n move on.

like ya avatar.a tha gunna batley on sunday?

 

no mate , love the scene, but monies tight

go to 2 or 3 rallies a year if i can

 

know what ya mean.

guin sundi n apart from kippatronix thats the only one a can afford to do all year.

 

we have a local one 1st sat every month, love skeggy and brid

southport good when they get decent groups, still hoping for specials tickets

 

RE: we have a local one 1st sat every month, love skeggy and brid

http://www.seetickets.com/see/price.asp?code=382031&userid={8F4DE8FA-5F1C-493B-9063-5DADDB57760A}&filler1=see&filler2=art-srch


they still got em at face value.we got a mimibus goin from wombwell of tha interested.will be a top day out.

 

RE: sorry but don't see anyone striking or helping me after i've lost my job

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Did somebody kill your industryout ofpolitical spite?</p>

 

The Cortonwood clashes

Sid Bailey, 71, from Brampton, South Yorkshire, was an underground development worker who went on strike at Cortonwood along with his two sons. The announcement of the closure of Cortonwood on 5 March 1984 ignited the year-long protest

"The atmosphere before the closure announcement at Cortonwood was always good. I had been down the pit there for 28 years. The village was a very friendly place and everybody helped each other. We were all out on strike for the full 12 months. At the end of the strike I went to work at Barnborough [colliery] for three years but then that closed as well. I was 50 and out of work for a year before I got a job with Rotherham Council. I retired through ill health eight years ago.

"People did break the strike from November. We had been out since March and by Christmas it had all started to fizzle. I didn't do a lot of picketing. We got the unions and the management to agree to let us fill up a small lorry and deliver coal to pensioners.

When we went back to work all the debts had built up. Not a very good year but it is one you can look back on and say, we managed, we got through it."

 

Agree with you totally *Windy

People can forget that miners had no option but to defend their dignity. Thatcher's onslaught was despicable. The confrontation was inevitable because she had the full force of political might and military backing (including police). I am still grateful to them for standing up to her.

 

Where did that come from? nt

 

Winter of discontent!

Would have been great having that every year wouldn't it?

 

Nothing to celebrate

Nothing at all.

 

RE: Agree with you totally *Windy

Well said that man (clap)

Had it not been for the Nottinghamshire lot they may have had a fighting chance.

 

Apart from when she dees

national holiday in tarn I expect.

 

RE: sorry but don't see anyone striking or helping me after i've lost my job

that just about sums you up.

 

Total disaster for the mining industry

and I don't think South Yorkshire hasstill fully recovered from all the pit closures.