Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome one and all to this, the final chapter of MY Miners’ Strike. As we start I’m still suspended from Driving Duties, Mutual Aid has ceased and I am waiting to hear my fate. The beginning of the end is a visit to my Duty Inspector’s office. He informed me that I was to be […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes My next set of adventures was slightly different. Well, a whole world different really. For this tour I was ‘lucky’ enough to be the Boss’s Driver. This meant a room of my own, a 2 litre Renault courtesy of Mr Hertz and the privilege of chauffeuring Superintendent ********* around for a week. The advantages were
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today would change our experience of the Miners’ Strike completely. We didn’t yet know it but we were about to be introduced to violence on the Picket Line for the first, but not the only, time. This tour also introduced us to a slight change of tactics. We were now a Mobile Reserve being deployed
Reading Time: 3 minutes The second episode of any note found me billeted at an Army Camp somewhere on the outskirts of Grantham. As far as I can remember we didn’t see a single striking miner for the entire duration of our week stay. We thought that we were going to be in for a boring week. How wrong
Reading Time: 2 minutes I can’t for the life of me remember where we were billeted this week, but I’ll never forget the name of the place that we did our finest work – Coalville, a little town in Leicestershire I believe. The only thing missing in Coalville was the Driftweed, absolutely nothing happened. Our job, as usual, was
Reading Time: 3 minutes Much has been said and written about the notorious Miners’ Strike of 1984/85 and you’ll be pleased to know that I have absolutely no intention of commenting on the politics of it, that is for others. However, it did occur to me that some of you might be interested to hear what it was like
