all my family worked at South Kirkby ,they stuck it to the end ,at what cost ? all the villages around here as well as the others were lain to waste ,they still have NOT recovered to this day ,a victory ? I remember my dad taking me to riddings drift and seeing water to the cap , it would never re-open ,none would and yet we are sat on trillions of tons of coal but import from Poland etc' Victory has a hollow sound to me
There one rule in life, you never cross a picket line.
I never have, or never will as long as I live.
The bloke at 7:00 mins that says it WAS worth it. I very much doubt that old boy!
My dad and five brothers worked at clipstone pit that story brought tears to my eyes.know were fighting to keep our headstocks.
all my family worked at South Kirkby ,they stuck it to the end ,at what cost ? all the villages around here as well as the others were lain to waste ,they still have NOT recovered to this day ,a victory ? I remember my dad taking me to riddings drift and seeing water to the cap , it would never re-open ,none would and yet we are sat on trillions of tons of coal but import from Poland etc' Victory has a hollow sound to me
How can I find the other parts to this?
Before every one returned to work they should have made a deal for all prisoners to be released and all to get there jobs back
How can it be in any leaders best interest to encourage dividing communities of its own people is beyond me.