Polmaise Pioneers 🔥 The First Miners To Strike In 1984

People And Nature ☭ This article is reproduced, with permission, from the programme for the Durham Miners Gala, on Saturday 13 July.Simon PiraniIn former coal mining communities, memories still burn bright of the week starting Monday 5 March 1984. On that day, Cortonwood and other Yorkshire pits walked out in protest at threatened closure. On the Tuesday, the National Coal Board