General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I saw all that 'division' in Pemberton during the 1984 strike when I worked in a shop there, close communities became enemies, I remember striking miners refusing the come into the shop, when there was a working miner in there (a scab) I mainly spoke to the wives of the miners, and there was one, and she was a bit nowt, and when they were about to go on strike, we were having a natter about it and she said "I don't know why they are going on strike" to which I said "it's about the pit closures" to which she said "well if they are going to close them, they are going to close, going on strike isn't going to stop it, and he says well what will I do if they close them, and I said well you will have to get another job" that lady was a straight talker.