Grimethorpe - BBC Everyman Documentary 1992

BBC Documentary series Everyman, focussing on the South Yorkshire mining village of Grimethorpe (near Barnsley) in 1992, and the effects of the miners strike and the impending closure of Grimethorpe Colliery. Copyright BBC (if this breaks copyright rules, this video will be removed).

[@golfr604]

My dad was a miner from leaving school in 1952 all the way up to when they closed , he was at grimethorpe up to the end .
I just missed out on the opportunity and would have loved to experience it , all our time as kids we played on the pit stacks and in the local pit yards at manvers main and wath ......miss those days dearly , dark times but the bastards never broke us .
Lost my dad in 2010 miss him like crazy .
Trev clark . RIP dad .

[@speakertreatz]

thanks very much for uploading

[@paul_7078]

You're welcome

[@buy.to.let.britain]

they can close unprofitable mines, but when banks are unprofitable (2008) they bail them out with billions of taxpayers money ?

[@tonywoodham3760]

Not what you know but who you know

[@Gillmeister2465]

Ken and Gail it's exactly the same just up the road in featherstone where I'm from, it might be a shite hole to others but our town was a solid mining town from 1865 to the present day, I enjoyed my life being a coal miner, even though I was transferred to the Selby pits, I wouldn't move there I stayed where I was from in a featherstone pit house, 😊

[@cheyenneasiafoxe292]

Very powerful but very depressing.

[@russchamberlain536]

Sorry to hear about your dad! My story is the same my mums side from derbyshire all miners my dads side all Nottinghamshire's miners (no scabs they all went on picket line) lived in a mining village everything we did was with minors all i ever wanted to do was go down the pit and follow my family i was just a littld to late. If they was ever to open pits again id be straight there

[@Finding457]

Mining was such a great job, unqualified men could earn wages equal to professionals, the miners kept the local economies buoyant and when the pits closed they couldn’t earn anything coming close to their miner’s wages and everything went down the pan, the mining villages got poor and never picked up since

[@paddas1612]

Incredibly sad

[@chriscars3578]

The mining industry was the best place to work in ever man looked out for the men they worked with all the government wanted to do was break the biggest union in the country.and the media didn’t help the miners

[@john-pp5hl]

Scargil knew what would happen to the community's.
You go to any ex mining village.
Then tell me he was wrong.

[@_Ben4810]

So just what did happen to the communities...??? Last time I drove past Grimethorpe village was still there, the old pit had been redeveloped into a successful industrial & business park & modern day life continues...

[@gazza1858]

Just like everyone knew what would happen through Thatcherism 2024 and nothing changed same party different leader..

[@andywatts2407]

@@_Ben4810 Of course it's still there. Pit closure didn't mean geographical annihilation, but social to a large degree. Go look at Easington/Dawdon and a plethora of others all over the north. Consett (granted, not a coal mine, but huge steelworks) suffered horrendously for decades - nothing was put in place to help replace the very reason it existed, like so many of the aforementioned towns and villages.

[@yorkybar2872]

Gone from 1200 aweek to 1200 a month

[@Thepalpatineboys77]

It’s sad, but pits were always gonna shut over here, we’re lucky we’re not walking around in solar suits and eating rabbit food

[@bolshevikproductions]

No Fuel Security anymore. What a silly little island.

[@john1606ful]

Scargill was the miners worst enemy , not Thatcher

[@andrewnelson3681]

I watched the news every day during the miner’s strike in 1984. It was obvious to me then as a 20 yr old, that Scargill cared nothing for the miners. He hoped to bring about a communist revolution and the miners were his tool.

[@dontnoable]

Not even close. Look up the recent article: For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought
Mark Hollingsworth

[@michaeljinks2082]

Knobhead

[@benchippy8039]

Maybe u know more about it than me and I reckon most of Nottinghamshire would agree with you but as far as I can tell scargill made no difference whatsoever apart from encouraging a year of incredible hardship. The globalists in control of the government don’t want a self sufficient Britain and it’s a plan put into motion decades ago

[@andrewbates2816]

Don't vote for anything

[@michaelfirth1075]

He was out for himself.

[@richardloring7545]

All my family grimethorpe miners....only a job ffs.. other work ...less dirry...less dangerous..my great grandad died there...1919....Edward Slack....2 Loring s on war memorial too so i aint been horrible....i loved the school holidays up there.....girl called Julie Norton n Mandy Briggs....lad called Eddie eklar..... Dawson too im sure...his mum eas lovely to me....thinknlost husband in a hit n run n id lost my mum