PA Media“It was the best Christmas we ever had,” says Aggie Currie without hesitation. “And a lot of mining families would say the same.”
The Miners’ Strike had been ongoing for nine months by the time Christmas 1984 came round.
And as Wham! and Band Aid battled to top the UK’s festive charts, one of the country’s most bitter and long-running industrial disputes was deadlocked.
Across the north of England striking miners and their families were facing a December like no other.
Aggie’s husband Pete had, like his colleagues, walked out of Markham Main Pit in Doncaster in March 1984 and, barring…
