The Miners’ Strike began
#OnThisDay
in 1984. The strike would last a year. Within a decade, every colliery in Durham would be shut.
Pictured is the Occupation of Easington, captured by photographer Keith Pattison.
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@DurhamMiners
Their kids wouldn’t have gone down the mines anyway. We’d have needed to import thousands of Poles to keep them open now.
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@MuchCwtchly
I was teaching in Nottingham at the time, in a marketting/public relations exercise the local policeman (we had them in those days) came into talk to the children and proceeded to demonstrate how he hit them, shortly before he was asked to leave.
#couldntmakeitup
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@madsainty
4th picture is where my Mam used to live and the third is the back street to my aunt Hilda's house. I remember the strike as a little girl.
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@DurhamMiners
My best mate’s brother was a Police Officer revelling in the overtime and fighting northerners. Shocking then as now. Began my education about solidarity and loyalty. Thanks to you all for what you did.
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@DurhamMiners
The place I was born to a man, my Dad who went on strike for better conditions & wages after rocketing inflation left him struggling to support us. My childhood has been shaped by my hatred of Thatcher, who decimated my home town and 100's of others. Never forgive & never forget
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@Jim_Lancashire
I collected food every Saturday on a stall for the entire 12 months - early on we billetted flying pickets in a derelict school we were squatting and our local unemployed action group were on the picket lines in south Staffs.
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@communicipalist
You know something is right when police serve those in power, not the people.
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@DurhamMiners
Most of my family were Miners, I remember how shit Scargill was ordering a strike without a ballot during the long hot summer of 84, which left 40 plus pits still working....He was no Joe Gormley!
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@DurhamMiners
Did the Tories ever apologise for their appalling treatment of the miners ? Did they hell.
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@DurhamMiners
Same time ? Same Thatcher set ? Abused ? Again and again and again ?
Children of the working class always get the shitty end ? And the blame ? And then the shame ? Strange days are these ? I wonder how its going to end ?
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