Fig 1: NUM National President, Arthur Scargill. 

NUM National Officials address Nottingham Area NUM reps

Following the NUM Special Delegates Conference on 19th April 1984, NUM National Officials, Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield, addressed a specially convened Conference of Nottingham Area NUM Branch Officials and Committee members at the Berry Hill HQ, Mansfield, on 25th April 1984. 

Fig 2: Minutes of Conference of Nottingham Area NUM Branch Officials and Committee Members at the Miners Offices, 25th April 1984. Source – Nottingham Area NUM minutes 1984, p157-159. 

Fig 3: Letter sent out to Nottingham Area NUM branches following the Special Conference of Nottingham Area NUM Branch Officials and Committee members on 25th April 1984. Source – David Amos collection 

“This strike is now official. We need solidarity of action and all miners should respond”.  Henry Richardson, Nottingham Area NUM General Secretary, following the Conference of Branch Officials and Committee Members on 25th April 1984.

“We are not going to live in the shadows of our forefathers. We cannot and will not live in the past. I want a vote on pit closures, not who governs the country. Intimidation will not win the day, what they are trying to do to the Notts miners is give them the order of the boot”.  Nottingham Area NUM Branch Official, 25th April 1984.