Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.756.2
Object Name
Print
Title
THE LONDON POLICEMAN: Once I Believed That Life Was Fine ... .. ...
Place
St.Albans; Nottinghamshire
Date
1985
Creator(s) Description
A black and white song broadsheet reading "The London Policeman' featuring sheet music and lyrics for a song that would've been sung on the pickets or at events supporting miners during the 1984-85 miners strike.
The 1984-85 Miners' Strike was called after the government announced plans to close 20 pits, at a cost of twenty thousand miners jobs, which the miners accurately saw as the beginning of the closure of all the pits in the UK. The strike lasted for over a year before ending unsuccessfully in March 1985. While letters from the NCB to strikers claimed that it was "absolutely untrue" that the government planned to ultimately close 85 pits, the NUM's speculation was correct. A second round of closures was announced in 1992 closing almost all the mines in the UK, leaving former pit towns with extremely high rates of unemployment and deprivation that last to this day.
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