No bones about it the Miners Strike was an early eye opener for me, even in Mid-Sussex, that well known industrial powerhouse on the south coast where I lived. School mates used to take the piss... what's it got to do with me. But, unlike them I did have relatives in Staffordshire that were affected by the strike.
Within my family pretty much anyone that wasn't employed in the potbanks were working within the mining industry locally.
When I listen to this early Billy Bragg BBC 'In Concert' gig, recorded at the height of the strike, I recall the images that were appearing on the evening news daily, those pitched battles battles between miners and police.
This is for my Great Uncle, Arthur Heath, killed by a roof fall in the Kent's Lane pit, Silverdale, Staffordshire, on 6th December 1921 aged just 16.
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