Before the strike of 1984-5 there were nearly 60 pits and mining communities scattered across the huge Yorkshire coalfield, Britain's biggest. More than 50,000 miners and their families depended on ...

Ray worked at Frickley colliery in the pit community of South Elmsall, located between Wakefield, Barnsley and Doncaster, in the Yorkshire coalfield. The pit had a long tradition of solidarity. As the ...