Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "ThamesTv" channel.

  1. I can barely comprehend that this was a mere 50 years ago. Easily within the living memory of a huge number of people. It feels like centuries ago in how different everything was.
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  2. My mother worked for the Coal Board in the 1970s, and she was telling me once how she resented being made to go on strike. I asked her (I was just a naïve kid) why she didn't go to work if she wanted to. She laughed and said "Because there were men with iron bars and pick-axe handles who'd stop you!" Watching this film - it's amazing how open and unashamed the Unions were that the entire picketing strategy was about intimidation.
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  3. If they could have seen the future - I wonder if they would have fought quite so hard to topple the white government.
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