I remember a very different strike
Maybe I remember it because my daughter was born in November that year.
It was very difficult to keep a young baby warm, when an open fire was the only heating we had, and fuel was hard to come by. We had a very considerate coal merchant who used to bring us a bag of whatever fuel he could get. This, plus the difficulty of changing nappies by torch light during power cuts, has etched it in my memory.
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Hide AdI have great respect for the miners in this area, and include several of them as my friends, but I think they were influenced by a radical union leadership.
The present Labour Party seems to have become aware of the danger that a union trying to rule the country is not democratic.
Jean Bowyer
Annesley Woodhouse