Miners
Pride in The Pits
01 Mar 2010
Throughout the 20th century coal mining was at the heart of industry and communities across North Staffordshire. The new documentary by Newcastle-under Lyme based documentary film-makers Inspired Film and Video will look at the importance of coal mining across the area and look at how it has shaped the communities we live in today.
It is coming up to 25 years since the end of the miners strike and there is a special question time event being held at the beginning of next month. I was having a sort out at home and came across a couple of letters I wrote that bought to mind my involvement in the strike at least from the City Council angle and helped to bring to mind a personal memoir of the events of quarter of a century ago.
25 years on
19 Sep 2009
By Mike Rawlins In light of the post by Alan over at The Art bay, I thought I would move this back to the front page. 25 years ago this week, Great Britain was at the start of what was going to be one of the longest periods of national strike in its history.
