Westoe Miners Strike 1984-85 - ON THE FRONT LINE (Alikivi 17mins 2001)

In 2001 I spoke to miners and their families. Here are four passionate voices taken from those interviews, people with a need to tell their stories, of what it meant to be on the front line: a year that would shape and change their lives forever.
‘On the Front Line’ is a story that must be told of a year we should never forget.

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I was born and bred in Southfamily working in the coal mines. Arthur Scargill and his cronies completely misrepresented

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Should have read - I was born and bred in South Shields. Some of my family worked in the coal mines. Arthur Scargill and his cronies completely misrepresented the situation as the mines were already doomed. Scargill thought he could topple a democratically elected Government. He had the luxury of two homes and a car funded by the miners while they struggled to make ends meet,