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 ...