06/03/2009
Article Details
Source: Yorkshire Post
Article Date: 06/03/2009
Summary
As a 10-year-old growing up in West Yorkshire, the events of the 12 months between April 1984 and March 1985 left a lasting and deep impression.
The miners’ strike was not just any old industrial dispute, but a strike in which the stakes for the main parties concerned became so high that the price each was willing to pay exceeded anything seen in an industrial dispute in Britain since the war…