Title

Picketing at Cortonwood at end of miners strike

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

5 Mar 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:01:07

Description

Report on the continuing picket line action at the end of the miners’ strike at Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire, where the dispute began, and where picketing Kent miners are preventing the return to work. Includes chanting of pickets and interview with dismissed miner David Hemmings. Male reporter not identified (poss. Mark Mardell).

Contributors

Mark Mardell?; David Hemmings

Keywords

Strikes; Labour disputes; Kent; Yorkshire; Coal miners; Coal mines; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Dismissal from employment; Strikes (events); Cortonwood Colliery

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