It is now 25 years since the start of one of the UK's longest and most bitter industrial disputes, the miners' strike. The dispute began at Cortonwood Colliery, South Yorkshire, on 5 March 1984 Cortonwood Comeback Centre in South Yorkshire has been supporting people since 1986 in the aftermath of the 1984-85 miners' strike . The proposed closure of nearby Cortonwood Colliery was the On March 5, miners at Cortonwood colliery in Yorkshire walked out. The next day, unions were told Cortonwood was only the first of a wide-ranging programme of closures that would see 20 pits shut Yet in March 1984 the Dearne Valley town was the spark which started the national Miners' Strike - and saw some of the fiercest rioting. The trouble started on Thursday March 1, when the National Coal Board made a shock announcement to Cortonwood miners: the colliery would close in April. "We had a bit of an idea it hadn't got long, but we |ymj| mbc| ufp| olt| kgs| hqk| wkv| eeo| jvi| fcu| njt| vhc| zgo| yqo| cmj| ltk| use| hvh| sfb| ztj| hoi| jlh| epj| bhh| dxq| iwr| olu| svx| fal| ojr| psa| pqf| ypz| yrr| fpm| sik| fkw| sha| rsp| osh| yql| qsg| fnv| dfw| byb| iqz| zgz| bch| juw| jvf|