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March
6th 1984
National Coal Board (NCB) announce plans to shed 20,000 more jobs
in the next financial year.
March
9th 1984
Yorkshire miners on strike after late shift.
March
12th
Energy minister Peter Walker issues statement in the House of Commons
saying he will not intervene in the dispute.
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| Police
at Kellingley (September 6th 1984) during picket by 4000 miners |
March
13th
Yorkshire flying pickets close Bevercotes and Cresswell pits in
Nottinghamshire and Whitwell in Derbyshire.
April
8th
Soup Kitchens open in Yorkshire for the first time since the 1920s.
April
17th
Wakefield Council provides school children with free dinners during
the Easter Holidays.
April
19th
NUM special delegates conference in Sheffield reject national ballot
and decide on rule change to a simple majority instead of 55%. The
strike is officialy declared national.
May
4th
Miners wives in Castleford march on electricity office after cut-off
threats.
May
24th
Concern about canaries at Kellingley Colliery.
May
25th
Arrests since dispute began reach 2570.
May
29th
Orgreave Coking Plant, Scunthorpe - 7000 pickets try to halt coking
coal leaving. 84 arrests.
May
30th
Orgreave - Arthur Scargill arrested and 3000 pickets clash with
police in riot gear.
June
4th
Police and pickets play football.
June
15th
Picket Joe Green from Kellingley Colliery killed outside Ferrybridge
Power Station.
Picketing starts at the Selby Coalfield in an attempt to persuade
construction and engineering workers not to go into the pits.
June
18th
Orgreave - 6500 pickets and 3300 police clash in the worst violence
in a British industrial dispute since the war. Tony Benn calls it
a "civil war." Arthur Scargill is taken to hospital with
head injuries.
June
19th
Comenting on Orgreave Mrs Thatcher says giving in to mob rule would
be the end of democracy.
June
22nd
8000 attend Joe Green's funeral in Pontefract.
July
13th
Local press report "near riots" and a trail of damage
between Fitzwilliam, Kilnsey Drift Mine and Hemsworth Police Station.
July
19th
Mrs
Thatcher, addressing the 1922 Committee, talks about the "enemy
within."
3rd
August
Pickets "hit and run" raid on NCB transport depot at South
Normanton.
10th
August
Anti-strike posters appear overnight in South Elmsall and South
Kirkby.
13th
August
The first Yorkshire miner goes back to work at Gascoigne Wood Drift
Mine.
Fire
breaks out at Fryston Colliery, face closed.
14th
August
NCB announce the loss of a coal-face at Fryston Colliery at a cost
of £3 million.
16th
August
Second miner goes into Gascoigne Wood Drift Mine.
17th
August 1984
3000 pickets at Gascoigne Wood. Attempts are made to extinguish
an underground fire at Fryston Colliery.
6th
September
4000 pickets at Kellingley Colliery.
26th
September
Sit-in
at Kellingley Colliery by 200 striking men.
Kirklees Council give £15,000 to the Salvation Army to be
distributed to striking miners families.
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| Dawn
at Emley Moor, 23rd October 1984 |
10th
October
Woolley miner returns to work 24 hours after being beaten up by
hooded gang.
17th
October
Policeman on picket duty at Woolley hit by two darts.Police and
pickets clash at Kiveton Park.
19th
October
2500 pickets from Denby Grange Colliery descended on Netherton village
- 19 injured and 9 arrests.
23rd
October
More than 1000 pickets try to prevent a bath attendant going to
work at Emley Moor colliery.
8th
November
First man returns to work at Cortonwood where the dispute begins.
23rd
November
Michael Fletcher of Fryston Colliery beaten up by a gang at his
home.
25th
December
Anne Scargill joins her husband on the picket line at Ferrybridge
Power Station.
27th
December
Department of Energy reveal that coal imports increase by 75% in
the first 10 months of 1984.
7th
January
Miners return to work at Kellingley.
8th
January
Coal produced at Kellingley for first time since strike began.
28th
January
Five more men return to Sharleston despite pleas of pickets to await
talks.
30th
December
A striking miner rom Denby Grange is awaded the BEM in the New Year
Honours list.
12th
February
Mass picket (largest this year) staged in Yorkshire which halts,
temporarily, the movement out of coal out of the new Selby coalfield.
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| The
end of the strike - Ledston Luck, Castleford, March 5th 1985 |
20th
February
9542 strike related arrests made during the strike with 7755 people
charged so far and 3817 convictions.
27th
February
West Yorkshire Police say dispute has cost them £8million.
2nd
March
Yorkshire decides by a narrow majority to continue strike until
amnesty for sacked miners is agreed.
3rd
March
NUM delegate conference votes to return to work by a majority of
98-91. Arthur Scargill says: "We go back together. We will
continue to fight pit closures and job losses...."
Most miners are expected to return to work on Tuesday March 5th.
The
images are taken from stories on BBC Look North, transmitted during
the strike.
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