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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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …