'ALL OUT' Penrhiwceiber South Wales during the Miners Strike Christmas 1984 -1985 

So PSB used a sample from the video you digitised, then their lawyers threatened you for putting the video online as it contains samples PSB used? A little insight into the snake pit that is the music biz! Great album mind...

Bloody wankers!!

Not sure if you'll see this but would like to get in contact with you regarding using 21 seconds from this for a film I am working on. I have also contacted Bristol University. Thank you

@@stevewakeford4592 No problems. That's fine with me. Please remember to credit Bristol University. All the best with your project.

@@togderi Thanks for getting back so quickly! I will be sure to credit them. (Crazy story above about psb lawyers! Murky world of music/content licensing!) Glad this is still up and being enjoyed and appreciated!

Me ttoo grew up in a mining community in the 1980s

But the people are surplus with no jobs.

No work no pride no community so much for a better way of life

Yep your full of s**t should have stayed in London

My nan babera Curtis was in this documentary

I've always thought that the loss of the mines, or heavy industry, took away the male sense of belonging. Sure it wasn't perfect in its ways by any stretch. But now, the kind of people that would've working in these industries, stack shelves and work behind tills. Theres no pride in that. And I'm not doing down those jobs, but you know what i mean. This was community, belonging. Thatcher said "theres no such thing as society". She was wrong. SO wrong.

They started an illegal strike in a deliberate attempt to bring down the elected government.

After Wilson weakened it by closing so many pits.

You speak the truth my friend. Most of these wankers let their hatred for Maggie color their reminders of the past. Look what the labor party has done to the country in the last 30 years.

@@rapman5363 Labour haven't been in power for 13 years. Anything wrong with the UK is the fault of the Tories.

@@rapman5363 20 mph! Compulsory se x perversion lessons in primary schools.

Hiya Kevin, The song is 'Take me Home' By Rod Edwards and Roger Hand. Covered by many including the Beaufort Male Choir also this version was used by 'Public Service Broadcast' on their album 'Every Valley' .

@@togderi Good afternoon sir Thank you 🙏 so much Please enjoy your day Please stay safe sir Thank you 🙏

As you say you know nothing of what these communities went throuth from sunny Surrey. My whole family were miners in 84 in the Cynon Valley and I was a Policeman in Lllanishen at the time and worked the whole of the strike both in Cynon Valley, Port Talbot and up North, so you can imagine the conversations we had around meal times etc. I would see them at the weekend and on Monday we were literally enemies. I sympathised with them every step of the way and it was hard and painful to see it all and be right in the middle of it. I also played rugby for South Wales Police at the time and the animosity very often carried over onto the rugby field and was brutal at times, but rugby being rugby we shook hands at the end. There is always two sides to a story (regarding treatment and abuse of each other at ground level around the Picket lines) and I was almost every day on both sides of it. In reality though how much longer would the pits have lasted bleeding money at a huge loss, especially with cheaper coal being brought in to the country from Eastern Europe and even from as far away as Australia. If it wasn't Maggie Thatcher it would have been someone else (even a Labour Government would have done the same). Jobs for life and filling your slot with your children was never going to happen in a modern world. Coal mining was becoming evermore dangerous, unpopular and unsustainable. Colliery workers were the most hardest working men in the country and no one will deny that. Can you imagine trying to get the bone idle teenagers these days to go down a pit, most cant even get out of bed. Even society attitudes were beginning to change and the inevitable had to come sometime. I can remember my parents always saying to me as a child in the 60's they would never let me go down the pits. I saw what it did to my father (Deep Duffryn Colliery) and step father (Lady Windsor Colliery), both now passed as a result of dust in the lungs. The decimation of communities, not only in Wales it caused at the time is still felt but I would confidentially say that not one miner around today would want to go back down a pit and certainly wouldn't want their children to do the same.

@@TheHeavyend81 thanks so much for sharing this with me. Every day is a school day and i appreciate when someone responds to me in the way you have. I am the very definition of white privilege (not that we were in any way wealthy, financially), but I suppose I shouldn't trash myself simply because my accident of birth. But its really important to me to understand what happened. My sister lives in an ex mining community in West Yorkshire and she to this day would encounter some mistrust as a southerner, so deep is the hurt. I wonder what the alternative was, was it ever going to be modernized to an acceptable level? You're right that if it wasn't Thatcher it would've been someone else. But it was done in such a demeaning, brutal fashion.Shocking times, reported with such bias.

God Bless Ireland and it’s great people!

The miners lost.

This is fantastic. I hope it gets shared far and wide across Wales. That message of, things are tough, but in times like these, we pull together and look after our communities... I think its important to remind people. Because the young families today, the parents we're not born in the late 80s - the same way the young families in the strike we're not born during the war years and needed to be reminded, we've been through this before... We survived then by pulling together. We can survive now too.

Knowing what is known about the police now should have kicked the shit out of them and not held back. I still remember digging out duff out of the tips, many of them were dangerous where kids undercutting too far.

Thankyou for posting this ! Took me right back to my roots My mum is speaking ....

It's crap being working class and poor

Great video 👍💯✌️😎🙏 Cymru Am Byth !!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@Mark Anthony Shellard How is he doing now? My mum often talks of these days. She'd spit at Thatchers grave if she could.

@@riverdeep399 would she spit on Wilsons grave, he closed more pits than Maggie,

Ken the USA police did the same in the 60s to the black community. Its all the same evil shit.

I was a policeman during the 84 strike in South Wales and I can honestly say you are talking total bollox. Nearly every Policeman on the strike in Wales had family down the pits (I had had four family members) and had a job to do in upholding the law as best we could. To be cruel and inhumane as you say to miners was impossible as you lived in the same communities and homes as many, went to school with them and grew up with each other. The behiviour you are talking about is not illegal in the States but every day normal routine. Thankfully here we are a lot more accountable.

@@TheHeavyend81 right?! never allowed in the states? With police and public armed to the teeth ready for civil warfare.....

Scargile took no wages through the strike but after he bought a £25000.oo house thought to be Russian money sent for the striking miners.

you had to wonder right?!

Reform wont change the place, Just send it down a deeper hole. Its just Farage's vanity project. He comes and goes where it suits him. He's no better than Labour, Tories or whoever. Theres gonna be civil unrest in the next 20-30 years. Major civil unrest. But not for good reasons like this film. But because the country is so dispassionate it worries about nonsense, about how many cars they own, how many phones. We need socialism back. Proper socialism.

Strange my father and older brothers were both miners and until I moved away in my twenties I never recall them ever being on strike.

Clown doesn’t know anything