The Miners' Strike and Wearside - 40 Years On - watch it on Shots!TV - video Dailymotion

Sunderland Echo

On the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike, Sunderland Echo speaks to some of the Wearsiders who were there. Watch the full feature on www.shotstv.com - Shots!TV also has programming on Freeview channel 276

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00:00 I think we all realised this wouldn't be like the other strikes where it was one or two days,

00:06 it was going to be a long term.

00:07 But there was a great camaraderie.

00:09 I think the government of the day had given the Met Police,

00:14 police from outside the area, free rein to do whatever they wanted.

00:18 Thatcher and our policies had done more damage to industrial Britain

00:22 than Hitler or the Luftwaffe did in five years of war.

00:25 This was Wearside 40 years ago.

00:29 A dispute which would last for a year was just beginning.

00:33 The miners' strike.

00:35 Thousands of workers from the Durham coal fields walked out.

00:38 They were fighting to protect their pits, their jobs, their communities.

00:44 There was no work so a lot of the young people moved out.

00:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]

The Miners' Strike and Wearside - 40 Years On - watch it on Shots!TV

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