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Miners' Strike 25 Years On

See Miners' Strike History for more information about the strike and the political divides of the time.

Twenty five years ago the miners' strike was a key turning point in modern British history. From March 2009 to March 2010, we will be gathering your video stories and comments about how the miners' strike has affected the course of the lives of those involved.

If you were a striking miner, a miner who did not go on strike, if you policed or documented the picket lines, were a political supporter for or against the strike, lived in a mining community at the time or reported on the strike, we would like to hear from you. Contact: videonation@bbc.co.uk

WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	18 February 2009 FLASHBACK Ken Wilkinson 2.00 mins Ken Wilkinson was a miner who took photographs during the 1984 strike and went on to become a professional photographer.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	18 February 2009 GOFER Brian Lewis 2.00 mins Brian is an historian, painter and writer with a strong interest in coal mining communities.


WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	23 February 2009 THE BLACKSTUFF BOYS Noel Griffiths, Cliff Williams and Bert Abraham 6.30 mins "It was one of the worst years of my life" Three ex-miners from the same valley in South Wales, but with very different experiences on the miners strike of '84-85'.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Add your thoughts Find out more	20 February 2009 ARREST Toni Bennett 2.43 mins Toni Bennett was arrested and charged for singing on the picket line at Markham, in Derbyshire in 1984. Till this day that same conviction still affects her life.


WATCH THIS VIDEO Add your thoughts Find out more	19 Feb 2009 PIT PRIDE Gerald Briddon 2.35 mins Gerald Briddon started out as a miner at Markham in Derbyshire. Due to a pit accident he moved to South Africa and worked in the gold and platinum mines.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Add your thoughts Find out more	20 February 2009 WOMEN Norma Dolby 2.23 mins Norma Dolby was a key character in the women's movement in Arkwright Town during the strike.


WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	20 Feb 2009 TOP BRASS Ray Sykes 4.40 mins Ray Sykes has been a member of the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band since he was a young boy.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	23 February 2009 MOVE THE MINER Gary Cox 1.50 mins Gary Cox is the chairman of a group who are campaigning to move the statue of a Kent coal miner from Dover seafront.


WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	23 Feb 2009 RETURNING TO BETTESHANGER Gary Cox 2.00 mins Former miner Gary Cox returned to the site of the Betteshanger pit for the first time since it closed 20 years ago.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	23 February 2009 I WAS THERE Paula Richards 3.06 mins "It was alright to have nothing, if everyone else had nothing too." Paula tells her story of her childhood as the daughter of a striking miner in 1984.


WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	2 Mar 2009 THE ENEMY WITHIN Anthony Thomas 7.30 mins Anthony gives his personal account of the strike which underlines his feeling of betrayal and his perception of indifference to the strike in Britain at the time.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	5 March 2009 LIFE CYCLE Martin Bullock 2.50 mins Martin Bullock was born in the year of the miners' strike, and now works on a former pit slag heap.


WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	3 March 2009 MINERS' HERITAGE George Horsfall 2.52 mins George Horsfall runs the Aylesham Heritage Centre, which aims to keep the mining heritage of the village very much alive.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Add your thoughts Find out more	3 March 2009 MINERS' MEMORIES Philip Sutcliffe 3.20 mins Philip Sutcliffe has lived in Aylesham almost all his life and spent over 20 years working on the coal face.


WATCH THIS VIDEO Find out more	3 March 2009 MINERS' WELFARE John Moyle 3.12 mins John Moyle was the Kent Area NUM president and now runs the Betteshanger Social Welfare Scheme.	WATCH THIS VIDEO Add your thoughts Find out more	3 March 2009 A WOMAN ON STRIKE Audrey Griffiths 3.40 mins In 1984 Audrey was interviewed by BBC Wales as a 'Woman on Strike'. 25 years on she takes a look back to see how her life changed because of the strike.

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