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Aye, hooked a big one from Hetton and another from Hull. :lol:
Still wet behind there ears mind but couldn't help myself.
I'm not old enough to of seen a pit other than at beamish. It's easier for me to look at it and pick the arguments apart as it did play a part in my life and certainly did my parents. but like you I'm still wet behind the ears in knowing the full impact of it and only learning through the power of internet. It's an interesting subject if nothing else

You are suggesting that people in this region have full economic mobility. A lot of people don't want to do what they do, they have little choice.

That is not what has held the region back, it was Thatcher's tirade against those who she thought had brought Heath's government down in the early 70s. Many parts of this area have still never recovered.
It's obviously a while since he had a stroll along the old lines at dawdon if he thinks the labour government is to blame
 
I'm not old enough to of seen a pit other than at beamish. It's easier for me to look at it and pick the arguments apart as it did play a part in my life and certainly did my parents. but like you I'm still wet behind the ears in knowing the full impact of it and only learning through the power of internet. It's an interesting subject if nothing else


It's obviously a while since he had a stroll along the old lines at dawdon if he thinks the labour government is to blame

Spot on mate. Driving through Easington is heartbreaking as you can see what a thriving, hard-working community it was but now has nothing.
As for people not wanting to go down the Mines, I'm sure many didn't but upping sticks to go and work in the city probably wasn't an option and still isn't. I've witnessed, first hand, a seeming prevalence of mental illness in these areas which seems to have been passed down and is endemic. These poor sods know nothing but deprivation, in many cases.
It's not like they wanted hand-outs, they wanted to graft and contribute, like everyone else.
 
Spot on mate. Driving through Easington is heartbreaking as you can see what a thriving, hard-working community it was but now has nothing.
As for people not wanting to go down the Mines, I'm sure many didn't but upping sticks to go and work in the city probably wasn't an option and still isn't. I've witnessed, first hand, a seeming prevalence of mental illness in these areas which seems to have been passed down and is endemic. These poor sods know nothing but deprivation, in many cases.
It's not like they wanted hand-outs, they wanted to graft and contribute, like everyone else.

Stop making me f***ing cry

Stop making me f***ing cry

& the worst are working class

Tory cuunt supporters :cry:
 
I know of people who went back,they where getting chased out of villages for years after. It wasn't them in the wrong they where about to lose everything. Thatcher annihilated scargill in this war and she hurt thousands of people doing so. She showed no remorse and that is why people still think Arthur was sound as a pound living in his million quid flat paid for by the union. I believe he had his heart in the right place but he was risking nowt compared to the average miner.
I went back early, that's after being arrested on picket line and nearly getting sent down! Oh plus the right hiding of a lifetime I got of the lovely boys in blue. Went back January just before my first son was born, we had a grand total of 6 terry towelling nappies & a second hand pram. I'd gone to the union for some assistance, remember vividly being told by our branch second in command as he slid an envelope over the table "here you go but don't tell anyone" it was a co-op voucher for a fiver! Told he was taking the piss & I was going back to work that Monday & did.
There was a definite clique during the strike, if you were one of the lads you'd be ok, money for cigarettes etc. They could even afford a few pints, canny. I was all for strike and agreed with Scargill, but family comes first. Remember someone having a right pop at my dad in the club one night because I'd gone back to work, said fuck all when I asked him to repeat to me.
Lost some 'good' friends due to strike, to this day won't speak which is their prerogative, they went through but there's any amount who know fuck all about it, weren't part of it and to them I'd like to politely say fuck off, you haven't got a clue!
 
I went back early, that's after being arrested on picket line and nearly getting sent down! Oh plus the right hiding of a lifetime I got of the lovely boys in blue. Went back January just before my first son was born, we had a grand total of 6 terry towelling nappies & a second hand pram. I'd gone to the union for some assistance, remember vividly being told by our branch second in command as he slid an envelope over the table "here you go but don't tell anyone" it was a co-op voucher for a fiver! Told he was taking the piss & I was going back to work that Monday & did.
There was a definite clique during the strike, if you were one of the lads you'd be ok, money for cigarettes etc. They could even afford a few pints, canny. I was all for strike and agreed with Scargill, but family comes first. Remember someone having a right pop at my dad in the club one night because I'd gone back to work, said fuck all when I asked him to repeat to me.
Lost some 'good' friends due to strike, to this day won't speak which is their prerogative, they went through but there's any amount who know fuck all about it, weren't part of it and to them I'd like to politely say fuck off, you haven't got a clue!

My 16 year old sister ( no we keep her picture on the fire place to keep the bairns off )
Think the 21 to Easington from smoggy
Went up to Easington just to see her cousin

when the polis got on the bus asked where

She was was gan


Made her get off and catch the bus home

Fuckin cuunts

Like my 16 year old sister was a flying picket
 
Wish I'd kept my mouth shut :lol: :oops:

But I knew feelings still run high

Daren't even tell you what happend to my sister when she went up to Easington during the strike

Let's just say polis left her terrified
Think this link answers your question. Fuck me some of the people where spot on,I live in hetton now and unless u want a haircut a bet or a takeaway there's nowt left


My 16 year old sister ( no we keep her picture on the fire place to keep the bairns off )
Think the 21 to Easington from smoggy
Went up to Easington just to see her cousin

when the polis got on the bus asked where

She was was gan


Made her get off and catch the bus home

Fuckin cuunts

Like my 16 year old sister was a flying picket
Yes Maggie led a very heavy handed and some may say corrupt police operation. Hillsbrough is an example and so is this strike. Sge quite literally has no redeeming qualities as a person

I went back early, that's after being arrested on picket line and nearly getting sent down! Oh plus the right hiding of a lifetime I got of the lovely boys in blue. Went back January just before my first son was born, we had a grand total of 6 terry towelling nappies & a second hand pram. I'd gone to the union for some assistance, remember vividly being told by our branch second in command as he slid an envelope over the table "here you go but don't tell anyone" it was a co-op voucher for a fiver! Told he was taking the piss & I was going back to work that Monday & did.
There was a definite clique during the strike, if you were one of the lads you'd be ok, money for cigarettes etc. They could even afford a few pints, canny. I was all for strike and agreed with Scargill, but family comes first. Remember someone having a right pop at my dad in the club one night because I'd gone back to work, said fuck all when I asked him to repeat to me.
Lost some 'good' friends due to strike, to this day won't speak which is their prerogative, they went through but there's any amount who know fuck all about it, weren't part of it and to them I'd like to politely say fuck off, you haven't got a clue!

You did what any decent man/father would have done when the time required. You won't be the only one who couldn't last the distance through no fault of your own mate. I can't imagine how hard it was with a bairn on the way n not a lot of other work,I had my son while I was out of work a few year back n it's hard enough when the mrs had full maternity pay never mind Fuck all coming in. Me dad has never mentioned it to me about going back early and I've never asked. If he did fair play to him and if he didn't fair play again,I also know he wouldn't of let me at 5month n my brother at 2 starve so it's a possibility. Wouldn't make the blindest bit of difference to me if he never went on strike at all n I'm sure it doesn't to your kids
 
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All thanks to Roy Lynk and his merry men.
Scabs the lot of them.

It reminds me of a cricket match at the time, Kent v Notts and Kent were struggling to make headway ... some wag from Kent in the crowd shouted "That's the trouble with you lot, we can never get you out!" Thought it quite funny at the time and strangely I still do! :)
 
It reminds me of a cricket match at the time, Kent v Notts and Kent were struggling to make headway ... some wag from Kent in the crowd shouted "That's the trouble with you lot, we can never get you out!" Thought it quite funny at the time and strangely I still do! :)

Last time I'm doing a match thread

Not
 
Does any of this link to Nottingham Forest football club yet? :mad:

Or the match thread?

Almost every point said about the strike on here I agree with yet I am still at a loss at why present day Nottinghm Forest fans are called scabs?:(
 
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Does any of this link to Nottingham Forest football club yet? :mad:

Or the match thread?

Almost every point said about the strike on here I agree with yet I am still at a loss at why present day Nottinghm Forest fans are called scabs?:(
Because it is something to dig them out with. Nothing more nothing less. This thread has taken an interesting turn mind
 
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