Valued exposure: Clashes

Miners and police clash at Orgreave

On this day in 1984 striking miners and police clashed at Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield.

At least 5,000 miners were met by police from ten counties. The clashes left 41 police officers and 28 strikers injured.

Photo from the BBC archive.


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