miners went back to the pits two days later. All the workforce at Grimethorpe Colliery walked out during the strike In Grimethorpe, near Barnsley, thousands of men gathered in the centre of the ...

These National Union of Mineworkers and Miners' Support Group badges were collected by George Bargolowski of Point of Ayr Colliery, during the 1984-5 Miners' Strike. Welsh miners took a leading ...

Miners at Goldthorpe Colliery in Barnsley returned to work in March 1985 displaying banners Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners' strike came to an end when thousands of men came off the ...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may ...

Almost 10,000 miners were arrested across England during the strikes, the majority of whom never faced prosecution in court. The strike’s origins were in Rotherham, where Cortonwood Colliery was ...

ALMOST 40 years after the miners' strike, a special event is set to reflect ... Paul Kelly, a former face worker at Agecroft Colliery, Lancashire, will discuss life in one of the deepest mines ...

It has been four decades since the beginning of the 1984-1985 Miners ... strike, which was one of Britain’s longest and most brutal industrial disputes, involved mass picketing and was attended by ...

THE Sports Direct warehouse is actually built on the site of the former Shirebrook colliery in Derbyshire. Its miners walked out in support of the miners’ strike against pit closures in 1984. Most ...

Explosions at the Oaks Colliery ... than 100 former miners who once made their living toiling in the dark bowels of the earth – and all remembered it with fondness. Several men earnestly told her that ...