thatcher and scargill

[Davey1970]

watching the news, waiting for the miner's strike to come on, a remember the day's as a young lad, hard time's, marriege's broke up, lifetime workmate's fell out, and good hard working bloke's even killed themselve's because of the hardship this no win situation caused.

a take my hat of to all you ex miner's out there.

 

[toonboymc]

I Davey just texted my dad he stopped out for the whole year mate mam n dad ran the soup kitchen from st oswalds church shiney row hard times mate he fell out with loads of his mates who went back early proud man and stubborn mate

 

[toonboymc]

Remember solid leather footies from russia

 

[Davey1970]

I Davey just texted my dad he stopped out for the whole year mate mam n dad ran the soup kitchen from st oswalds church shiney row hard times mate he fell out with loads of his mates who went back early proud man and stubborn mate

hello mick lad, nowt stubborn about it,
it was proud and humanity,
did you know that there on about opening bate's pit , in blyth.
because found 8 million tonne's of coal that wasn't there when thatcher was in power.
make's sense m8 eh

 

[toonboymc]

My dads got a plaque on his wall for stopping out he reckons it cost him £7000 wages but wouldn't change a thing picket lines digging duff down the lines and running kitchen mate

 

[Davey1970]

they were the day's m8,

hence, hand line......!

 

[Winton]

Costs less to import the stuff these days the munes arnt cost effective in this country

 

[EFC FOREVER]

I did my scaffold courses with some ex miners and when they explained 2 me what ghey went through and how they had been stiched up by yhe government it made me really feel for them pround working men waiting in yhe bread line these lads were from the barnsley area and ghey had said they never decommissioned half the machines all yhe did was encase yhemnin steel because one day when its viable they will re-open them
Nothing to do with maggies fella investing in a polish coal company about 6 months before she started to close the pits
And people in london wonder why she was hated......

 

[The Jester]

I was 23 at the time and didnt have it as bad as lads who had mortgages and families. I really felt for those at the time. But would i do it all again....yes, without a doubt.....The Russian soap was the best, you couldnt get a lather out of it to save your life...

 

[toonboymc]

I was 23 at the time and didnt have it as bad as lads who had mortgages and families. I really felt for those at the time. But would i do it all again....yes, without a doubt.....The Russian soap was the best, you couldnt get a lather out of it to save your life...

Well said my friend

 

[regpude]

Stubborn.

Stubborn.

I Davey just texted my dad he stopped out for the whole year mate mam n dad ran the soup kitchen from st oswalds church shiney row hard times mate he fell out with loads of his mates who went back early proud man and stubborn mate

i was one of them STUBBORN miners,it was hard going but as davey 1970 says im a proud MAN.would do it again given the chance.:thumbup:

 

[toonboymc]

i was one of them STUBBORN miners,it was hard going but as davey 1970 says im a proud MAN.would do it again given the chance.:thumbup:

Well said reg mate what pit mate

 

[regpude]

westoe

westoe

Well said reg mate what pit mate

was only back a couple of months,got SACKED,through a S..B,lost ££££££ redunderse,didint relice at the time.miners CRAIC is simply THE BEST.nesa hasent got a lookin {but its canny}.ps,think davey 1970 has started a saw thread,could turn nasty? hope it doesent.

 

[regpude]

Marra

Marra

Well said reg mate what pit mate

thats us,proud men.:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[OuTkast76]

My father in-law was at Westoe pit too

 

[Safetyman]

I was 27 at the time of the 1984 strike and working at Westoe colliery. My overriding memory was the way the strike was started using flying pickets. The miners had already voted against the strike and rightly so as there were record coal stocks on the ground and we were now past the worst of winter and heading for warmer weather. It was industrial suicide and played into the hand of Thatcher who was determined to break the miners – at any cost.

Flying pickets were used to picket out the miners pit by pit, area by area until the miners were fully on strike. I am not and have never been an Arthur Scargill fan but I have to say history proved him right.

The hardship people endured was remarkable and I remember getting my food parcel every two weeks from the union and only survived the strike with help from both my wife’s parents and mine in paying the bills. I got fuel for the fire from various places and even though we were in a smokless zone we burnt anything on the fire to keep the house warm.

Families were split, it set brother against brother, father against son and you had to feel sorry for some of those who returned to work early driven by extreme hardship and pressure from wives. In stark contrast to those who returned to work out of pure greed.

There were so many stories about the strike it would probably take a book to recount them all. Police on the picket lines without any numbers on their uniforms (suspected to be from army), Police brutality, Police stupidity in the charge down Leighton street where even the window cleaner was arrested. I have that as far as I am aware none of the local Police were involved as they knew it was their community.

Despite my reservations about the strike I stayed true to the union and returned to work a year later on the same shift we finished on (nights ) to be treated like sh*te by the ar**holes who were supposed to be managers. That’s when animosity started against those who had returned to work early and of course the managers put in place measures to protect them.

To misquote Charles Dickens…..”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times………”.

 

[Davey1970]

well said lad's, a was to young but have many memory's
me old man and his m8's helping out with fresh produce from the allotment.

a remember at the time, the lad's who went back (scab's) were hated and treated like murderer's.
but when you look at your young children and grandchildren now,
you would do anything for them, wouldn't you.

another annoying thing is these coal faces up and down the country is still chocker block with better quality coal that's being imported.

sorry for going on 1 lad's ......!

 

[dale19]

as an x miner myself the day the bitch died I went out and had a few whiskies that woman ****ed the docks the mines and the steel works up.
and after all the miners went through they got nowt .
it makes me so mad to see mining villages just like ghost towns.
hand on heart I worked with some of the best lads in the pit I have ever had the privilege working with .
work hard and enjoy a pint in the working mans club with them great times.
I am sure all you ex miners would agree

 

[cod magnet]

as an x miner myself the day the bitch died I went out and had a few whiskies that woman ****ed the docks the mines and the steel works up.
and after all the miners went through they got nowt .
it makes me so mad to see mining villages just like ghost towns.
hand on heart I worked with some of the best lads in the pit I have ever had the privilege working with .
work hard and enjoy a pint in the working mans club with them great times.
I am sure all you ex miners would agree

well said mate

 

[Safetyman]

as an x miner myself the day the bitch died I went out and had a few whiskies that woman ****ed the docks the mines and the steel works up.
and after all the miners went through they got nowt .
it makes me so mad to see mining villages just like ghost towns.
hand on heart I worked with some of the best lads in the pit I have ever had the privilege working with .
work hard and enjoy a pint in the working mans club with them great times.
I am sure all you ex miners would agree

I agree.

As has already been said by Reg the crack was great. You shared an environment which was dangerous and had to watch each others back. Which is why, in my mind, betrayal by those who broke the strike was never forgiven.

Trust, friendship and socialising in the club/pub was part of life in the mining communities. When the pits closed it tore the hearts out of those communities.

Thatcher should rot in hell