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The 1984 Miners Strike

by suziquaif | Jun 25, 2017 | people, places & things

miners strike 1984, Margaret Thatcher, the NUM, Notts / Derbys coal industry and mining communities

Suddenly I was back in my mother in laws living room all those years ago. I was there, but I seriously wished I wasn’t.

Wrtiten 2013 (revised June 2017)

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With special thanks to : Warsop Vale Local History Society http://www.warsopvale.org/index.htm for allowing the use of images from their gallery.
Additional images courtesy of : Martin Shakeshaft http://www.martinshakeshaft.com/
Pleasley village photo By Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14274129

References :
http://www.warsopvale.org
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/The%20decline%20of%20king%20coal%20-%201.pdf
http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/nottingham.htm
http://www.nottshistory.org.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org

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