Another interesting video. I have just come across your channel. I am currently writing a crime thriller about how the miners strike still resonates through the UK in current times.
In Armthorpe they still have the 'Scab House' where one of three people who broke the strike there used to live. Everytime the house is rebuilt or refurnished, its burnt down again or smashed up, 40 years later. Look it up!
What people dont realise is that during the strike, South Yorkshire was put on police lockdown with people being subject to arbitary arrest and punishment. The police would smash up peoples cars, vans and homes and there was nothing that they could do about it. To this day, most people do not respect authority in South Yorkshire because of the terrible crimes that the people were subjected to in the strike by the Met police. If you broke ranks and and went back to work, it was worse than being a German spy or collaborator during the war. However, I fully understand why some people, facing bankrupcy and losing their family would be tempted. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. As a retirered history teacher I'm just trying to keep alive this period of forgotten history.
@@MinersStrike1984 It was a similar situation here in the South Wales Valleys. Families evicted from their homes because they couldn't pay the rent. Or had posessions taken because they couldn't a fford to pay for them. And then there was the Undercover Police units who infiltrated the miners' unions to split them even more.
My grandads uncles and distant cousins were all miners back in the day even thow i was not alive during the strike I still find it a interesting subject I all was wonder what it would be like if the pits were still open the miners and pit officials all said soon as the pits shut the towns and villages would be fluded with crime unemployment and drugs the heart and soul of our community's gone if only the pits were still open it would have turned boys into men and opportunities would of still been about all i can say is power to the people long live the miners.
That's why it's important to teach kids about their proud mining heritage and what it meant to belong to a community where people looked out for each other. Check out the videos on the long term consequences and the rise of selfish individualism
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Another interesting video. I have just come across your channel. I am currently writing a crime thriller about how the miners strike still resonates through the UK in current times.
In Armthorpe they still have the 'Scab House' where one of three people who broke the strike there used to live. Everytime the house is rebuilt or refurnished, its burnt down again or smashed up, 40 years later. Look it up!
What people dont realise is that during the strike, South Yorkshire was put on police lockdown with people being subject to arbitary arrest and punishment. The police would smash up peoples cars, vans and homes and there was nothing that they could do about it. To this day, most people do not respect authority in South Yorkshire because of the terrible crimes that the people were subjected to in the strike by the Met police. If you broke ranks and and went back to work, it was worse than being a German spy or collaborator during the war. However, I fully understand why some people, facing bankrupcy and losing their family would be tempted. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. As a retirered history teacher I'm just trying to keep alive this period of forgotten history.
@@MinersStrike1984 It was a similar situation here in the South Wales Valleys. Families evicted from their homes because they couldn't pay the rent. Or had posessions taken because they couldn't a fford to pay for them. And then there was the Undercover Police units who infiltrated the miners' unions to split them even more.
My grandads uncles and distant cousins were all miners back in the day even thow i was not alive during the strike I still find it a interesting subject I all was wonder what it would be like if the pits were still open the miners and pit officials all said soon as the pits shut the towns and villages would be fluded with crime unemployment and drugs the heart and soul of our community's gone if only the pits were still open it would have turned boys into men and opportunities would of still been about all i can say is power to the people long live the miners.
That's why it's important to teach kids about their proud mining heritage and what it meant to belong to a community where people looked out for each other. Check out the videos on the long term consequences and the rise of selfish individualism
@@MinersStrike1984 I will check the video out
@nohope2613 everything is organised into playlists for my channel. The secret is to educate, agitate, and organise.
If only they'd had a Palestinian flag.