Grimethorpe a Pit Village.wmv 

shut thee gob.

Done the same to industry in Scotland because we hated her.

I would give anything to see some old footage of my grandad..I bet u were so chuffed to have this of him..I miss my grandad so much he left home in Longford Ireland to join up in 1941 at 15 but ended up working in the mines for 50 years doing most of it at Weldale Colliery

What’s there now ?

Did you know the Spialek family?

You had unprofitable mines. You couldn't turn a profit mining coal so what business do you have expecting the taxpayer to pay your wages? What about all those peoplewho used to make VHS videos should we have paid them to continue as well?

@@nudisco300 shafted by a tory goverment history repeats itself with doris johnson a clown

@@chrishart2838 they are all as bad as each other Labour are as bad as the Conservatives.

From easterhouse Glasgow,remember well.

Coal had it's day...The fact that 40 years later, still no-one has managed to introduce an environmentally acceptable & carbon reduction process to make it clean enough for use within any new generation power station kinda says it all...hardly killed off....

Obviously from your comment, you are very ignorant to what really happened in Britain under Thatcher, and get all your viewpoints and information, from the mainstream media, the same media employed by government to spin their tales.

Watch my documentary ‘The Fight for Tower’ about the last pit in the Rhonda Valley where the miners did buy their pit and ran it successfully for over ten years.

Hi Anya, The archival news footage is what I took from video recordings of actual programmes and used as needed. Interviews and cutaways are what I filmed at the time I made it, 1988/89. My opinion about using copyright stuff is that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. If you’re not selling it for commercial profit and making it as an educational resource as I was, it was a college project, then I don’t think the people who filmed the original would set lawyers on you. You’re obviously aware that it costs an absolute fortune to buy clips from libraries, image banks etc. The stuff I used I figured the people who shot it never asked permission from those they filmed so I feel justified using it. Anyhow you are welcome to use anything I’ve shot on this and any of my other stuff on my RU-vid channel, just credit me as person who shot it. Good luck with your film and if there’s anything I can do to help please get in touch.

Thank you Tony!

Why would mining towns be mocked ?

@@golfr604 Because they’re dumps & depressing.

A lot of solid strikers from the Kent coalfields, that stood shoulder to shoulder in the strike with their coal mining brothers

Yes indeed they did @R Plant and they refused to return to work until their fellow mining comrades were returned.

That's the police for you... That particular cop is not different from many of us who go along with 'orders from above' to step on the little people - scary that most of us won't question authority.

@@edelgyn2699 the officers came in from Nottingham they were brutal

Nobody wanted coal anymore and you couldn't make a profit. Why the hell should you have jobs if nobody wants your product? In EVERY sector in the world if demand falls factories shut and people get layed off. Why do Northerners have such trouble understanding this? How big a loss should the taxpayer take to keep you all in jobs when no one wants what you make? You don't get people who used to work in vinyl record factories screaming death to Apple because it's all changed and people download now do you? 99% of the world understands things change and they adapt but Northerners live in the past. Move on.

​@@nudisco300not so much then, plenty of coal was still used. It was political as much as economics. Plenty of industries were nationalized and losing money. Now the price of gas might make you reconsider. The ironic thing was these people probably voted for Brexit. I would have thought this experience would have soured them on conservative government forever.

@@paulnicholson1906 Nationalisation is wrong on so many levels. Our country was built by entrepreneurs in the private sector then for reasons of 'national security' due to the war., the government raped these buccaneers and stole their businesses. They then proceeded to ruin these businesses and create an unproductive lame duck Britain addicted to taxpayers cash - look at Leyland as an example. Taxes need to go towards police, hospitals, schools, bin collections, parks and local transport it does not need to be keeping people in jobs that shouldn't exist. Thank goodness M Thatcher took Britain back to its entrepreneurial - wheeling dealing natural habitat. Its only a pity Boris is a closeted socialist.

@@nudisco300 I agree with you but I was just saying what is true a lot of industries were nationalized in the “good old days” which weren’t so good. Also there was a political element to crushing the miners, they had got too powerful and we’re holding the country hostage.

@@paulnicholson1906 Totally Agree!!!

Sorry to hear that. All the best.

Salt of the earth coal miners, but I'm biased. I also had family work in pits as far back as late 1800s. Thoughts with you, family and your uncles

Hi Alex, glad you liked the video, did you watch the other one about Tower Colliery? You can contact me on 07883847676 or tonydevoy@hotmail.co.uk anytime.

@@TheRaggylad Cheers Tony. Have emailed!

Mislead how we was fighting to save our jobs. Fast forward to 2021 . I was right

@@flalingbashers2957 why did he accept a brand new jaguar from British Leyland?

El James might be stubborn but we helped get rid of that bitch

@@flalingbashers2957 Grimethorpe had a good run...name another single site involved in mineral extraction that had a 100 year life span...??? There's only so much you can extract before it ends for either economic or mother earth runs out reasons, & with environmental & sustainability issues over coal looming, Scargill was fighting his own pointless & selfish battle...

Perhaps we should just appreciate the upload ? I was happy enough with the quality bearing in mind it would have come from an old video cassette .

@@Mark64W because if the original film or cassette were available anywhere, I could restore to very high quality for them

@@MePeterNicholls In that case I apologise for my comment and appreciate your kind offer .

From someone who has family and friends who worked Silverwood, South Yorkshire. Great to have Kent miners (Betteshanger, Chislet, Snowdown and Tilmanstone) shoulder to shoulder with us up north. ✊

I feel sorry for you .

The Beast it’s not that bad

I’m from thurnscoe

Used to have my summer holidays in 70s n 80s at my Nans up Nancy Road....It was great....Thought we was Cockneys the other lads....Remember Red Rum the horse at opening of Pub.. Doctor place before pub

What’s the pit been replaced with ?

Watch out tik tak grow up lot of men lost their lives down pit only

No I wasn’t i was on the front line with my comrades.

@@flalingbashers2957 ye right

@Kai Mokryj yes kai