Miners Strike

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Daily history of the Miners' Strike 1984-5.

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A good time to remind everyone of this scottish lady who was interviewed when margaret thatcher died. "i'd put a stake through her heart and garlic round her neck to make sure she never comes back"

“I say to the people of Britain, if you stand aside while miners are beaten to the ground by a paramilitary police force in riot gear, what they do to us today they’ll do to you tomorrow” #OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill speaks about Orgreave

“I say to the people of Britain, if you stand aside while miners are beaten to the ground by a paramilitary police force in riot gear, what they do to us today - they’ll do to you tomorrow” #OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill speaks about Orgreave

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During the #MinersStrike Liverpool dockers collected food and funds in solidarity with striking miners.

#OnThisDay 1984. Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on Thatcher at the Durham Miners Gala During Kinnock's speech three of the brass bands immediately walked off. By the end only a quarter of the crowd remained to listen.

“If we can keep them fed, which we are trying to do, the longer we can go on in this way" #OnThisDay 1984. ITN News reports from the Gwent food fund in South Wales.

Convoys of lorries carry imported coal from Poland into the Orgreave coking works #OnThisDay 1984. A massive police presence continues.

#OnThisDay 1985. Miners at Fryston colliery discuss scabs.

#OnThisDay 1984. The National Coal Board grant working Nottinghamshire miners a day off with pay to demonstrate against the #MinersStrike 7,000 miners demonstrate at Berry Hill in Mansfield.

#OnThisDay 1984. Thousands of striking miners and supporters from coalfields across the country march through London.

"If this lot were seals or whales, you'd all be up in bloody arms. But they’re not, are they? No, no they're not. They're just ordinary common-or-garden honest, decent human beings" Pete Postlethwaite in Brassed Off. Released #OnThisDay 1996.

#OnThisDay 1984. Christmas turkeys are delivered to families at Bedlinog, South Wales. Seven thousand turkeys had been bought with donations given to the Miners Relief Fund.

Women Against Pit Closures on the picket line at Hatfield Main Colliery in February 1985.

"Don't cross picket lines because if you cross picket lines it's scabbing and it's about time Notts miners stopped being scabs" #OnThisDay 1984. Nottinghamshire miners leaders, Ray Chadburn and Henry Richardson, call on their miners to join #MinersStrike

#OnThisDay 1990. Mardy colliery, the last pit in the Rhondda Valley, closes. The final 300 miners had their last shift on 21 December 1990 in a valley which had previously employed more than 4,000 men.

#OnThisDay 1984. Labour leader Neil Kinnock says his diary was full and therefore couldn't attended rallies in support of the #MinersStrike

“I must tell you that what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law, and it must not succeed. It must not succeed.” #OnThisDay 1984. Margaret Thatcher comments on the picketing at Orgreave

#OnThisDay 1984. Miners block the entrance to the South Wales miners’ headquarters in Pontypridd to prevent access by High Court commissioners.

"If I grovel long enough I'll get a knighthood" Dennis Skinner on journalists and news media coverage of the #MinersStrike

#OnThisDay 1984. Miners block the entrance to the South Wales miners’ headquarters in Pontypridd to prevent access by High Court commissioners.

#OnThisDay in 1986. The Wapping dispute began. In scenes similar to Orgreave mounted police charged into crowds during the dispute without warning.