DIDO.1 22,857 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 Saw this and thought of you. Bet you have shaken a few of these over the years 5 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 11,145 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 I remember about a decade ago being on a course the tutor Bernie from Sunderland mentioning how nobody had a garden fence during the pit closures as they were all used for firewood What reason did they give for closing the mines? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 10,935 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 Tbh even though I supported the strike a 100pct and stuck it out till the bitter end I lived about 7 miles away from the pit I worked at so did not get the help from the food kitchens sett up in mining villages and I only went picketing a few times it put me off idiots smashing and turning car's over one night picketing Dinnington pit. I spent the winter of the strike poaching anything edible and saleable to look after my family. 16 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 29,522 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 2 hours ago, low plains drifter said: Bernie from Sunderland mentioning how nobody had a garden fence during the pit closures as they were all used for firewood That’s true,all the fences went in our village apart from posh peoples. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
low plains drifter 11,145 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 11 minutes ago, mackem said: That’s true,all the fences went in our village apart from posh peoples. Did the posh people have wrought iron? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bakerboy 4,740 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 2 hours ago, low plains drifter said: What reason did they give for closing the mines? Supposedly economics but in reality politics 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,857 Posted June 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 2 hours ago, low plains drifter said: I remember about a decade ago being on a course the tutor Bernie from Sunderland mentioning how nobody had a garden fence during the pit closures as they were all used for firewood What reason did they give for closing the mines? The closed the mines when people stopped burning coal so the bottom fell out the market. Everyone was burning wood they were buying of some theiving cnut who was nicking fences. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 29,522 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 4 minutes ago, low plains drifter said: Did the posh people have wrought iron? No,walls,the better part of the village,the council part everything went up in smoke,fences,sheds,trees,anything that would burn,even old clothes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,857 Posted June 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 Before we start getting political.... Another nice little find 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 29,522 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 6 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said: Before we start getting political.... Another nice little find Saw a crate earlier containing a book that weighs 60Kg,cost 10’s of thousands,over a hundred years old,being shipped to Italy. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 9,291 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 (edited) There's a Durham Miners Gala every year in July. It's a celebration of working class community,solidarity and internationalism. 200000 people generally attend. All the old pit villages still parade their banners. Miners who stuck it out and miners who were beaten up and fitted up by the police at Orgreave are feted as heroes. I find it really moving. But I know a lot on here will laugh and sneer at that. Edited June 9, 2023 by jukel123 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 5,134 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 24 minutes ago, jukel123 said: There's a Durham Miners Gala every year in July. It's a celebration of working class community,solidarity and internationalism. 200000 people generally attend. All the old pit villages still parade their banners. Miners who stuck it out and miners who were beaten up by the police at Orgreave are feted as heroes. I find it really moving. But I know a lot on here will laugh and sneer. It's just the way it is. A very important part of our history I can’t imagine anyone sneering or laughing, I was on holiday once and met an older couple who were celebrating their honeymoon we hit it off straight away he was an ex miner and he said to me look at the footage of the Battle of Orgreave where the horses charge and a telegraph pole or a lamppost I can’t remember which was knocked over, his claim to fame was it landed straight on his head lol he was from around the Notts area a great solid down to earth bloke. When I watch footage of Orgreave I admit it is emotional to see working men fighting for their families and livelihoods the Tories ripped the heart out of this country, back then there was communities now a lot of towns and villages are poverty stricken and left behind with the problems that come with poverty drugs crime ect. 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 9,291 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 Top man. History is important. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hambone 950 Posted June 9, 2023 Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 Feel I'm pissing into the wind here but it was Scargill's miners and they're "were all right" attitude that fkd the union movement not the Tories Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 22,857 Posted June 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2023 Didn't labour close more mines than the Tories? Or did I just make that up? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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