成人快手

(This timeline has been compiled from the official 成人快手 News chronology of events during the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike and from the 成人快手 Look North archive. All images taken from 成人快手 Look North TV coverage at the time of the strike.)

March 6th

National Coal Board (NCB) announce plans to shed 20,000 more jobs in the next financial year.

March 9th

Yorkshire miners on strike after late shift.

March 12th

Energy minister Peter Walker issues statement in the House of Commons saying he will not intervene in the dispute.

March 13th

Yorkshire flying pickets close Bevercotes and Cresswell pits in Nottinghamshire and Whitwell in Derbyshire.

March 15th

Picket David Jones from Ackton Hall Colliery dies after injuries received on the picket line at Ollerton in Nottinghamshire.

Police @ Kellingley, Sept 6th 1984

March 23rd

3000 attend funeral of picket David Jones at All Saints, South Kirkby.

April 8th

Soup Kitchens open in Yorkshire for the first time since the 1920s.

April 17th

Wakefield Council provides school children with free dinners during the Easter Holidays.

April 19th

NUM special delegates conference in Sheffield reject national ballot and decide on rule change to a simple majority instead of 55%. The strike is officially declared national.

May 4th

Miners wives in Castleford march on electricity office after cut-off threats.

May 24th

Concern about canaries at Kellingley Colliery.

May 25th

Arrests since dispute began reach 2570.

May 29th

Orgreave Coking Plant, Scunthorpe - 7000 pickets try to halt coking coal leaving. 84 arrests.

May 30th

Orgreave - Arthur Scargill arrested and 3000 pickets clash with police in riot gear.

June 4th

Police and pickets play football.

Dawn @ Emley Moor Pit, Oct 23rd 1984

June 15th

Picket Joe Green from Kellingley Colliery killed outside Ferrybridge Power Station.

Picketing starts at the Selby Coalfield in an attempt to persuade construction and engineering workers not to go into the pits.

June 18th

Orgreave - 6500 pickets and 3300 police clash in the worst violence in a British industrial dispute since the war. Tony Benn calls it a "civil war." Arthur Scargill is taken to hospital with head injuries.

June 19th

Comenting on Orgreave, Mrs Thatcher says giving in to mob rule would be the end of democracy.

June 22nd

8000 attend Joe Green's funeral in Pontefract.

July 13th

Local press report "near riots" and a trail of damage between Fitzwilliam, Kilnsey Drift Mine and Hemsworth Police Station.

July 19th

Mrs Thatcher, addressing the 1922 Committee, talks about the "enemy within."

3rd August

Pickets "hit and run" raid on NCB transport depot at South Normanton.

10th August

Anti-strike posters appear overnight in South Elmsall and South Kirkby.

13th August

The first Yorkshire miner goes back to work at Gascoigne Wood Drift Mine.

Fire breaks out at Fryston Colliery, face closed.

14th August

NCB announce the loss of a coal-face at Fryston Colliery at a cost of 拢3 million.

16th August

Second miner goes into Gascoigne Wood Drift Mine.

17th August

3000 pickets at Gascoigne Wood. Attempts are made to extinguish an underground fire at Fryston Colliery.

6th September

4000 pickets at Kellingley Colliery.

26th September

Sit-in at Kellingley Colliery by 200 striking men.

Kirklees Council give 拢15,000 to the Salvation Army to be distributed to striking miners families.

10th October

Woolley miner returns to work 24 hours after being beaten up by hooded gang.

Ledston Luck Colliery, Mar 5th 1985

17th October

Policeman on picket duty at Woolley hit by two darts.

Police and pickets clash at Kiveton Park.

19th October

2500 pickets from Denby Grange Colliery descended on Netherton village - 19 injured and 9 arrests.

23rd October

More than 1000 pickets try to prevent a bath attendant going to work at Emley Moor colliery.

8th November

First man returns to work at Cortonwood where the dispute begins.

23rd November

Michael Fletcher of Fryston Colliery beaten up by a gang at his home.

25th December

Anne Scargill joins her husband on the picket line at Ferrybridge Power Station.

27th December

Department of Energy reveal that coal imports increase by 75% in the first 10 months of 1984.

7th January

Miners return to work at Kellingley.

8th January

Coal produced at Kellingley for first time since strike began.

28th January

Five more men return to Sharlston despite pleas of pickets to await talks.

30th December

A striking miner from Denby Grange is awarded the British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours list.

12th February

Mass picket (largest this year) staged in Yorkshire which halts, temporarily, the movement out of coal out of the new Selby coalfield.

20th February

9542 strike related arrests made during the strike with 7755 people charged so far and 3817 convictions.

27th February

West Yorkshire Police say dispute has cost them 拢8million.

2nd March

Yorkshire decides by a narrow majority to continue strike until amnesty for sacked miners is agreed.

3rd March

NUM delegate conference votes to return to work by a majority of 98-91. Arthur Scargill says: "We go back together. We will continue to fight pit closures and job losses...."

Most miners are expected to return to work on Tuesday March 5th...