Families recall the struggles for food when money was tight during the year-long dispute.
PublishedFor families living through the 1984 miners' strike money was tight. In some cases it was non-existent. Mothers cooked wild, locally caught pheasant and rabbit for the first time and neighbours shared home-made food.Her father was a miner in County Durham and, along with hundreds of colleagues at the local pit, he went on strike in March 1984.
Some families used the soup kitchens that were led by miners' wives to make sure that everyone got at least one home-cooked hot meal a day.She remembers being brought wild caught rabbit and pheasant but she had "never seen it before, never mind cooked it". People say it is the company that keeps them going back, a chance to meet and chat with old friends and neighbours from the colliery.The project is led by former Masterchef contestant and retired teacher Bill Smithson.
The strike “brought the community together, fighting against what they saw as an injustice”, he says.
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