The bitter industrial dispute that started in March 1984 saw picketing miners pitched against police officers, and colleagues - so called scabs - who chose to return to work.

Here - accompanied by a musical soundtrack from the time - look back to the sights and sounds of the strike.

Includes BBC archive of miners, their families, former NUM president Arthur Scargill, and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

Photographs courtesy PA, Getty Images.
Slideshow by Paul Kerley. Publication date 5 March 2009.

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