Fig 1: NCB logo 1970’s.

NCB documents: Summer 1984

As the 1984-85 miners strike went into its fourth month, the National Coal Board (NCB) sent out various correspondence to all of its employees between June and August 1984, including terms for settlement on 18th July 1984. No agreement on pit closures was reached on the latter because of disagreement between the NCB and NUM over the term ‘beneficially developed’.  

Fig 2: NCB correspondence sent to all employees in June 1984. Source – David Amos collection 

Fig 3: Randolph (Randy) Florence, a working Nottinghamshire miner at Mansfield Colliery (right) meets NCB chairman, Ian McGregor (middle), at the White Lady tea rooms, Newstead Abbey, in May 1984. Ian McGregor mentions him several times in his 1986 memoirs of the strike. Photo Credit: David Amos collection.

Fig 4: NCB correspondence to all employees in July 1984. Source – David Amos collection. 

Fig 5: NCB correspondence from August 1984 including the terms of settlement at the meeting with the NUM on 18th July 1984 which floundered over the interpretation of the term ‘beneficially developed’.  Source – David Amos collection  

Fig 6: NCB advert in the Notts Free Press, Friday 13th July 1984. 

Fig 7: Ian McGregors 1986 memoirs on the 1984-85 miners strike.