My grandfather was a coal miner in England, but I never did hear from him anything about miners' strikes. Of course, this was back in the late 1890s and very early 1900s. He allowed me to follow the Springhill Mine Disaster on radio (both the 1956 and 1958 disasters). I have 'never wanted to go down under the ground' since then, but I have the greatest respect for those that do.