Without getting political, I think
this is one of the saddest sights of Doncaster. This is the pit wheel at Markham Main colliery
in Armthorpe.
I was in Skellow during the miners
strike of 1984, and I remember vividly the hardship those families faced. The strike
lasted a year and I think it was clear for all of us that it was only a matter
of time before the pits started to close.
Looking purely from the economic
viewpoint it made perfect sense to close the pits. However life never is just
black and white. There is various shade of grey that also need to be taken into
account.
No thought was given to all those
families who had grown up with a strong tradition of mining. Generations of men
had been miners as their fore fathers before them.
No thought was given to the wider community
that depended on those mines staying open.
No thought was given to the sense of
community that these mines instilled within the local communities.
All that is now lost, and although a
few mines remain open, the community doesn’t have the same regard for them as
they once had.
Regardless of what happened one
thing is very clear since the closure of all the mines in and around Doncaster our
community just hasn’t been the same.
Ammo
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