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  One of the nastiest strikes ever.. started off on this very day 25 years ago, and many of us remember it as if it was only yesterday. Some of the brutal encounters between the striking miners and the police were the worst ever seen in an industrial dispute. The strike started, at I believe Ollerton Colliery, as its closure was announced on this very day.
  
  Following the closure announcement the miners immediately walked out on strike and slowly but surely the strike spread throughout the nation in a total industrial war. Something like 52,000 miners were on strike. All went out except for some bizarre reason the miners in Nottinghamshire. Nottingham kept the country supplied with coal which was seen as a terrible scablike betrayal.
  
  The strike didnt achieve any of its goals. It lasted a year and The Miners lost. Their industry was devastated, with all the pits closing one by one. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people lost their jobs, and their special communities died, never to recover. An era was gone forever.
  
  The Conservative Government under Mrs Thatcher, who wealded the axe, promised new jobs...but alas years and years later the replacement jobs were of the call centre variety.
  
  GaryC will know more Im sure especially the impact the strike had in Kent.

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