The data are not available in electronic format so have been published as scanned images taken from the New Earnings Survey (NES) publication, which was the precursor to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). Most pickets throughout the strike were non-violent. It also became cheaper to import coal from countries such as Poland and Australia rather than mining it in Britain. During the strike women came into their own, as we have seen, organising and staffing support groups, setting up soup kitchens, packing food parcels, raising funds, speaking in public, even joining picket lines. This figure includes overtime pay, bonuses etc., of full-time man aged 21 and over in all occupationsthat is manual and non-manual. On the 5th January 1972, the National Executive Committee of the NUM rejected a small pay rise from the National Coal Board, who then 2 days later, withdrew all pay offers from the last 3 months. In South Yorkshire, the focus is on Askern, a mining village to the north of Doncaster, where the pit functioned until 1991. Despite the miners efforts, the government succeeded and in the end most of Britains coal mines were closed. In County Durham the focus is on Chester-le-Street, where the pits at Pelton Fell and South Pelaw closed in the 1960s but which acted as a turntable between the inland plateau and the coastal area. Two striking miners dropped a 21kg concrete block from a bridge onto the car . The third difference was the Thatcher factor. Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Black Victorians and the Future of Africa, Why was British India Partitioned in 1947? Noticed a typo? Miners were proud of their work.