Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "Miners Strike | Police Tactics | Flying Pickets | Trade Union | TV Eye | 1984" video.

I worked around Scunthorpe at this time the British Steel plant was subject to a lot of picketing. I had friends on both sides, some were made redundant, some made a fortune. Now coal is demonised. Mining is an extraction buissnes, it runs out, and had. My own family history is coal mining, and it isn't a happy one. My Farther wa sthe last miner in the family.
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