Lea Hall and others have all shut their doors, reducing a once thriving industry that employed tens of thousands to a mere ...
Getty Images The strike divided communities and families, with some miners crossing picket lines - Lea Hall Colliery, Staffordshire, March 1984 Roper says if this happened today, the funeral costs ...
The year-long miners' strike from March 1984 to 1985 changed ... Speaking from Onllwyn welfare hall, she remembers the work that went into feeding families who often had no income by this time.