Coalminers daughter here👋. My Da died at 63 years of age from pit related illnesses and yet he fought for his job and for his community. A community that is now in tatters, we are now reaping the trash that is thatchers legacy. RIP Da, my Hero❤
@maxpowerii7368
Solidarity to the former mining communities of South Wales from Yorkshire. Old bonds never forgot ✊
@KeithWilliamMacHendry
Lovely man & that wonderful deep Welsh accent is so nice on the ear. Whatever your views, Thatcher turned this island into a low wage low skill society & the legacy is clear, the British state has deluged this island with East European labour who don't mix & send as much of their earnings as possible. out of this economy. I don't blame them. however, I have a complete contempt & disdain for the corporate run British state & how they have ripped the heart & soul out of this island. Shameless, selfish people who would never ever want their off-spring working as skilled manual workers but are determined to cut tradesmen earnings for their personal greed & gratification.I am a Scot who works as an electrician in London & we were earning the same in 2008 as we are now where sites are often 90% East Europeans due to decades of no investment in apprenticeships. The corporate financiers are truly dreadful people & a cancer on humanity, they created a large underclass that has existed since the 1980's that never works & deluged with drugs & hopelessness.
@WindermereScienceFestival
Beautiful short film, I love the period pieces and views of Barrow!
@crnwll
Thanks for posting. I recognise and resonate with many of the sentiments touched on as part of the cousin Jack Tin mining community brethren.
@jdjones4825
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@lordsofafan372
My father worked in st John's in maesteg !!! then he got taken up to glyncorrwg after getting trapped and hurt by a rockfall under ground in st John's. I am a Baitup and my father was called "Mel Baitup" . He was young and was learning to be an explosives man till the collapse, it squashed his friend too . I wonder if any of you can remember that ??? He must've been down there in the 60 maybe . Wish I knew more about that era of his life . I also wish I could see where he worked back then because he said to me that it was the most scary and dangerous place he'd ever been to work. In south pit glyncorrwg he worked above ground in the offices and was the man who came around to see how much coal you've pulled out of the ground. If any of his friends had a bad week and didn't bring much up he'd lie and say they brought up more coal so their pay wasn't lessened .
@keithrobinson5752
One reason that failed to get the support they expected, was that they tried to 'force' workers in other areas from working. By whatever means they could.
@lordsofafan372
You can hear kierons voice lol. If that's definitely Mr gibbons lol.
@nigelhamilton815
I contracted at coal board mines. In my experience there are no better people.
@lordsofafan372
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@highpitwilma
It had nowt ti dae wi us...he said.....he has forgotten that the Welsh Miners came up north to wor pits in Northumberland and Durham,before we had wor ballot..it seems he can remember wat suits him best!.. and bugger the rest of us!
@briankeniry219
That's not right. We all knew the NUM would have another go at the Tories and the Tories knew that too, it was very obvious.
@heartofoak45
The Miners were fighting for their communities, Thatcher was fighting for the country, no contest.
@lolorick5885
Thatcher and her mate David Hart split the miners union
@Thrillwit
Here’s to the British MINERS:
@TheSilmarillian
So may I ask where is this show of force now against the every Saturday supporters of hamas? Conspicuous by there absence I would think. Sorry I digress I live down under so I didn't know about this strike breaking hence the beginning of my comment. still relative though me thinks considering the UK at the moment, born there my parents brought me and my brother out here to Australia as ten pound poms, I will forever be indebted 2 them for that. Born in Willington quay Newcastle on Tyne hospital according 2 my birth certificate think that makes me Welsh? Always remember my grandfather he was a coal miner here in the South Bulli Colliery - Illawarra Coal near Wollongong NSW pits and after a few he sang in welsh or I think it was.
@lawLess-fs1qx
The UK embraced socialism after WW2. Labour created the NHS and nationalised the Steel & Mining industry because they were not economically viable. The unions in these industries constantly striked for higher wages due to high inflation. Governments generally conceded to the wage demands. by 1976 the game was up.The UK was broke.The IMF gave the biggest loan ever (at that point) $3.9 billion. to the UK. 8 years later the Miners went on strike because they wanted the taxpayer to bail out uneconomic mines. the UK was still broke. Germany used the Marshall plan money to replace heavy industry with light industry making consumer goods. Britain used the marshall money for bailouts thus kicking the can down the road.When the cash ran out Maggie was in power. Port talbot is the final casualty of can kicking.
@JamesRichards-mj9kw
Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.
@harrynewiss4630
All these crocodile tears for the miners make me laugh. The whole industry would now be being aggressively closed down by the same people who are shedding them for 'green' reasons.
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