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 miners' strike of 1984-85, a year-long civil war ... Baddesley, Birch Coppice, Daw Mill, Littleton, Lea Hall and others have all shut their doors, reducing a once thriving industry that ...

For families living through the 1984 miners' strike money was tight. In some cases it was non-existent. Mothers cooked wild, locally caught pheasant and rabbit for the first time and neighbours ...