In 1994 the Coal Industry with 170 pits remaining operational were put back into private hands. By 2007 only 8 remained.
My father’s pit was worked throughout 1984/5 and was finally closed in May 2010.
Margaret Thatcher held office until 1990 and was the longest serving Prime Minister Britain has ever known. Before her death in April 2013 she held a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. In 2002 she was diagnosed as having dementia
Ian McGregor retired from the NCB in 1986 and for time there were campaigns to appoint him Head of the National Health Service and British Gas, but they were unsuccessful. He died in 1998 of a heart attack and in his autobiography is reported as being less than complimentary about Margret Thatchers handling of the 1984 dispute.