1984 to 1985 miners soup kitchen .in cwm. ebbw vale .those were the days ,52 wks on strike. only time i had money was whan we whent up country picketing £2 per day
i was speaking to some about the strike last week ( it started off as i gave him my ticket to see the football, cardiff v's the scabs ), he was telling that when a housewife would go into the bakers / butchers etc etc, they would buy what they wanted and pay for something else and it would be put on the shelf for the strikers to have, what a feeling that must have been, from both sides, the feeling of helping some1 out in the community and the feeling that some1 would help you out, must have been special days, standing together side by side, careing for each other, look at us today, couldnt give a monkies aslong as you have a new car , expensive holidays etc etc, a product of maggies britian i guess