On the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike, Sunderland Echo speaks to some of the Wearsiders who were there.
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00:00 I think we all realised this wouldn't be like the other strikes where it was one or two days,
00:06 it was going to be a long term.
00:07 But there was a great camaraderie.
00:09 I think the government of the day had given the Met Police,
00:14 police from outside the area, free rein to do whatever they wanted.
00:18 Thatcher and our policies had done more damage to industrial Britain
00:22 than Hitler or the Luftwaffe did in five years of war.
00:25 This was Wearside 40 years ago.
00:29 A dispute which would last for a year was just beginning.
00:33 The miners' strike.
00:35 Thousands of workers from the Durham coal fields walked out.
00:38 They were fighting to protect their pits, their jobs, their communities.
00:44 There was no work so a lot of the young people moved out.
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