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Memoirs From A Picket Line – The Final Chapter

By RetiredAndAngry Posted on May 16, 2015 Posted in Miners' Strike, Mutual Aid, Nostalgia, Uncategorized 2 Comments Tagged with Miners' Strike
Memoirs From A Picket Line – The Final Chapter

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 …

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Memoirs From A Picket Line – Part Five

By RetiredAndAngry Posted on May 13, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Miners' Strike, Mutual Aid, Nostalgia

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 …

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Memoirs From A Picket Line – Part Four

By RetiredAndAngry Posted on May 11, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Miners' Strike, Mutual Aid, Nostalgia

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 …

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Memoirs From A Picket Line – Part Three

By RetiredAndAngry Posted on May 9, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Miners' Strike, Mutual Aid, Nostalgia

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. …

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Memoirs From A Picket Line – Part Two

By RetiredAndAngry Posted on May 7, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Miners' Strike, Mutual Aid, Nostalgia

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 …

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Memoirs From A Picket Line Part One

By RetiredAndAngry Posted on May 4, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with #PFTP, Miners' Strike, Mutual Aid, Nostalgia

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 …

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