The colliery is long gone now, just as Scargill told us it would be.
Two striking miners were last night charged with the murder of a taxi driver who was taking a miner to work at Merthyr Vale colliery in Mid-Glamorgan.
'The style of attack today is similar,' Mr East said, 'but with any inquiry you must keep an open mind.' Twenty-eight policemen have been injured in clashes involving hundreds of police and pickets at the colliery, where two men have been reporting for work for a fortnight.
He belonged to a mining family, to the savage extent that he worked, and his father broke his back in, the same colliery in which his older brother, Wilfred, was killed.
THE HELPER - Marilyn Johnson helped run the kitchen in the colliery club during the strike with the support group Save Easington Area Mines.
As he shows off the NUM's meeting hall festooned with colliery banners recalling that union's past industrial might, Rollin says Unite's effort to reach out to those without jobs is breaking new ground and could be the start of a significant chapter in Britain's labour history.
After training as an electrical engineer, he joined the National Coal Board as a shift charge engineer at Ellington colliery.
At the time of the strike the colliery employed 2730 people.
Where 20 years ago the discussion was of keeping the red flag flying high, it will now concern whether to go for red or black as croupiers will spin roulette wheels and hand out cards in the imposing block on Holly Street, which was designed in the shape of a colliery faceworker's pick.
In Stead's book, Kay Bowen, wife of the delegate at the Blaenent colliery, Wales says: "I'd thought I'd never be able to give orders or ask people to do things.
Between the wars, the Guards found the county a fruitful recruitment area, as young men trod the well-worn path from colliery, via five years with the colours, to constabulary.
