Grimethorpe a Pit Village.wmv
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- The 1984-85 Miners' Strike and its effects on the pit village of Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire. It begins with news reporting of the strike and is followed by interviews with some of the main participants who describe how the strike affected them and their fears and concerns for the future.
My grandfather was a miner in Carlton and is buried in the Graveyard there with his eldest daughter's grave next to him. He had been a trooper in the Blues and Royals. My Grandmother was Headmistress of the vllage school. I was last there in the 1980's
From a Yorkshire lad now living and working in the Midlands........God bless all the people of Grimethorpe and other mining communities....you brave lads and lasses... I salute you all!!
shut thee gob.
brilliant video thanks for putting it up lived there from 7yrs to 16yrs (1965 -1974) went to willowgarth Never forget what the Miners did for this country! A village abandoned left the youth turned to Drugs .....Thank you Mrs T
Done the same to industry in Scotland because we hated her.
Love this video. Alot of the old lads seen in the club are sadly no longer here, one of them, my grandad Jack Pointon.
I would give anything to see some old footage of my grandad..I bet u were so chuffed to have this of him..I miss my grandad so much he left home in Longford Ireland to join up in 1941 at 15 but ended up working in the mines for 50 years doing most of it at Weldale Colliery
Bloody great find... Brings back some harsh and proud memories xx
Its IRONIC that the iron WITCH is now in a fiery pit ...😮🌅🌄🌅🌄♨️♨️♨️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
From Lanarkshire, Scotland!
Coal killed off! As is steel! From prosperity to desolation!
Thatcher sure worked us over! Best wishes to our friends in Yorkshire!
You had unprofitable mines. You couldn't turn a profit mining coal so what business do you have expecting the taxpayer to pay your wages? What about all those peoplewho used to make VHS videos should we have paid them to continue as well?
@@nudisco300 shafted by a tory goverment history repeats itself with doris johnson a clown
@@chrishart2838 they are all as bad as each other Labour are as bad as the Conservatives.
From easterhouse Glasgow,remember well.
Coal had it's day...The fact that 40 years later, still no-one has managed to introduce an environmentally acceptable & carbon reduction process to make it clean enough for use within any new generation power station kinda says it all...hardly killed off....
My ex was from Grimethorpe,lovely ppl treated me well 💕
What’s there now ?
I went to Grimethorpe just the once....The pit had gone, they were in the process of constructing new roads & holy hell, it was this vast expanse of grey moonscape everywhere you looked from the reclaiming & pushing out the tips...I was quite shocked at how dramatic & depressing it all was at that time....
I remember it well happy days thanks for posting this video
loved living in grimethorpe many happy memories made there went to milefeild middle school moved from there 1973 still have family in shafton grimethorpe and barnsley
Did you know the Spialek family?
thanks i miss south yorkshire
i am 16 years old god this realy inspired me i am curently living in barbsley and i never knew the villige like this know look at iy this is a great place to live :)
Thank You
Its sad. The young people had it right. Unfortunately in this world you can't keep a failing business going for any reason, supply demand, export and import costs etc. unless the village itself buy the coalmine and try themselves to make ends meet. could that work?
Obviously from your comment, you are very ignorant to what really happened in Britain under Thatcher, and get all your viewpoints and information, from the mainstream media, the same media employed by government to spin their tales.
Watch my documentary ‘The Fight for Tower’ about the last pit in the Rhonda Valley where the miners did buy their pit and ran it successfully for over ten years.
Thanks for the upload.
My dad was a miner and in the strikes the police were brutally abusive and beat them. I helped my father to pick coal during the strike. Maggie Thatcher was no Iron Lady, She destroyed the community of miners and my father said she would have let Children starve just to prove she could run a country as good as any man.
Salt of the earth, disgusting how The witch treated the working class .
Honourable, decent yet stubborn people mislead by Scargill to oppose an equally stubborn Thatcher mislead by dogma.
Mislead how we was fighting to save our jobs. Fast forward to 2021 . I was right
@@flalingbashers2957 why did he accept a brand new jaguar from British Leyland?
El James might be stubborn but we helped get rid of that bitch
@@flalingbashers2957 Grimethorpe had a good run...name another single site involved in mineral extraction that had a 100 year life span...??? There's only so much you can extract before it ends for either economic or mother earth runs out reasons, & with environmental & sustainability issues over coal looming, Scargill was fighting his own pointless & selfish battle...
Long live the Iron Lady!
Pip Pip Hooray
Bob’s your uncle
Good people deserved better but at the bottom of the food chain you are just given scraps god bless to these people
that song makes me cry!!!!!!!
My family came from Grimethorpe and moved to Deal in 1940 they were the Hinds family
A lot of solid strikers from the Kent coalfields, that stood shoulder to shoulder in the strike with their coal mining brothers
Yes indeed they did @R Plant and they refused to return to work until their fellow mining comrades were returned.
Rest in HELL Thatcher 😢
Nobody wanted coal anymore and you couldn't make a profit. Why the hell should you have jobs if nobody wants your product? In EVERY sector in the world if demand falls factories shut and people get layed off. Why do Northerners have such trouble understanding this?
How big a loss should the taxpayer take to keep you all in jobs when no one wants what you make?
You don't get people who used to work in vinyl record factories screaming death to Apple because it's all changed and people download now do you? 99% of the world understands things change and they adapt but Northerners live in the past. Move on.
@@nudisco300not so much then, plenty of coal was still used. It was political as much as economics. Plenty of industries were nationalized and losing money. Now the price of gas might make you reconsider. The ironic thing was these people probably voted for Brexit. I would have thought this experience would have soured them on conservative government forever.
@@paulnicholson1906 Nationalisation is wrong on so many levels. Our country was built by entrepreneurs in the private sector then for reasons of 'national security' due to the war., the government raped these buccaneers and stole their businesses. They then proceeded to ruin these businesses and create an unproductive lame duck Britain addicted to taxpayers cash - look at Leyland as an example.
Taxes need to go towards police, hospitals, schools, bin collections, parks and local transport it does not need to be keeping people in jobs that shouldn't exist.
Thank goodness M Thatcher took Britain back to its entrepreneurial - wheeling dealing natural habitat. Its only a pity Boris is a closeted socialist.
@@nudisco300 I agree with you but I was just saying what is true a lot of industries were nationalized in the “good old days” which weren’t so good. Also there was a political element to crushing the miners, they had got too powerful and we’re holding the country hostage.
@@paulnicholson1906 Totally Agree!!!
If you name a place Grimethorpe it's doomed from the start to be honest
All my family where miners even as far back as 1800s but also glad I didn’t work down them my uncles dying of pit lung as we speak
Sorry to hear that. All the best.
Salt of the earth coal miners, but I'm biased.
I also had family work in pits as far back as late 1800s.
Thoughts with you, family and your uncles
I thought this was going to be a joke video mocking mining towns then I realised 'Grimethorpe' is actually a real place.
Why would mining towns be mocked ?
@@golfr604 Because they’re dumps & depressing.
I was there being pushed about by a cocky cop, I was talking to the same copper about 15 minutes previously and he seemed like a nice guy,until he got orders from his radio and then he started pushing and shoving .. all we was doing was standing back and watching a small group of others (whom wasn’t from the village ) The police just started provoking us who were an innocent crowd 😡
That's the police for you... That particular cop is not different from many of us who go along with 'orders from above' to step on the little people - scary that most of us won't question authority.
@@edelgyn2699 the officers came in from Nottingham they were brutal
Hi Tony, I'm a filmmaker from Barnsley, I was wondering if this is archival footage you sourced online or if its your own footage? if so can we use a snippet within a film were currently making?
Hi Anya, The archival news footage is what I took from video recordings of actual programmes and used as needed. Interviews and cutaways are what I filmed at the time I made it, 1988/89. My opinion about using copyright stuff is that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. If you’re not selling it for commercial profit and making it as an educational resource as I was, it was a college project, then I don’t think the people who filmed the original would set lawyers on you. You’re obviously aware that it costs an absolute fortune to buy clips from libraries, image banks etc. The stuff I used I figured the people who shot it never asked permission from those they filmed so I feel justified using it. Anyhow you are welcome to use anything I’ve shot on this and any of my other stuff on my CZcams channel, just credit me as person who shot it. Good luck with your film and if there’s anything I can do to help please get in touch.
Thank you Tony!
From the Kent coalfields, solidarity for all it's worth, but it's all tourist attractions now thanks to Thatcher.!!
From someone who has family and friends who worked Silverwood, South Yorkshire.
Great to have Kent miners (Betteshanger, Chislet, Snowdown and Tilmanstone) shoulder to shoulder with us up north. ✊
I live in grimethorpe
I feel sorry for you .
The Beast it’s not that bad
I’m from thurnscoe
Used to have my summer holidays in 70s n 80s at my Nans up Nancy Road....It was great....Thought we was Cockneys the other lads....Remember Red Rum the horse at opening of Pub.. Doctor place before pub
What’s the pit been replaced with ?
What year was this filmed?
Az Tha Got Any Chicken Tikka Fort Bird 😂
Ha at 10:05 white city is mentioned, my grandparents lived there for years. My grandad was a boss at the pit he got my dad a job there when he married my mum.
In terms of working class communities, Thatcher and her government showed an unacceptable face of capitalism. The tories have pursued a hardline path ever since.
Gone from digging coal to digging smack 😐
Watch out tik tak grow up lot of men lost their lives down pit only
they were foolish to return in 1984. should have walked away.
Sad!
I was right .
Dear Tony, a great, and important film. I'm a researcher currently working on two documentaries for the BBC and C4. I wonder if you have a contact email address I can speak more about possibly using this film? thanks. Alex.
Hi Alex, glad you liked the video, did you watch the other one about Tower Colliery? You can contact me on 07883847676 or tonydevoy@hotmail.co.uk anytime.
@@TheRaggylad Cheers Tony. Have emailed!
Scargill was in the asda at Handsworth shopping while miners were striking
No I wasn’t i was on the front line with my comrades.
@@flalingbashers2957 ye right
Margaret Thatcher May And Ian Duncan gorgon but unfortnately there's not many stalking the earth to compare them to.The Provopolice and Militias Frontline Warriors maybe should be weird,control rage Ride the Bokaliphants to the fires of the new fires of fatty fried herds, or nerds even. Purge summit on the Costa Concordia. Elswhere the grand palais , castles and other large efforts have succeeded. HFracking Is really the reason i,m here commenting. Has the recycling filler been planned and the new cracks and field will spread and then well be needing to demolish entire areas of urban areas too.
It’s a shame this isn’t in far higher quality. Who has the original film?
Perhaps we should just appreciate the upload ? I was happy enough with the quality bearing in mind it would have come from an old video cassette .
@@Mark64W because if the original film or cassette were available anywhere, I could restore to very high quality for them
@@MePeterNicholls In that case I apologise for my comment and appreciate your kind offer .
Pip Pip Cheerio
Bob’s your Uncle
YO BOIS IM ON FORTNITE IN CLASS DONT TELL MR WRIGHT
@Kai Mokryj yes kai
Cannot forgive Thatcherism for this
This is a huge stain on her
A say lad were u going now lad going down pit going to collect me wages but were ur bike lad at pappas getting fixed but we're u going lad😂😂
*_Grime_* thorpe - ?? The library cop's name is _Bookman?_ _Buttafuoco????_ *WHAT IS GOING ON?!*
This looks to me like a community thats been scooped up from Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania and landed in the south Yorkshire countryside. Who in there right mind would want to have their life wedded to this.