Underground tours exploring coal mining in West Yorkshire have resumed, after being halted for more than three months to ...

"We needed to be together and support each other because in this area, the majority of the miners were working," recalls ...

Billy Powell, from Ramsgate, was in his late 20s and working as a "face worker" when the strike was called to resist colliery closures across the country, announced by the National Coal Board. "We ...

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