Funny Dave, I knew many miners, very few would agree with you on mine closures.

I once tried to get a job down Agecroft Colliery, I asked the father of my then girlfriend to put a word in for me (the only way you got taken on then).

He gripped me warmly, by the throat, and said in a way that brooked no argument "while you're going out with my lass, you're not going down the pit!"