21 August 2014
“Thirty years after one of the pivotal clashes in the miners’ strike of 1984 when violent confrontations erupted at the Orgreave coking plant, the area outside Sheffield could barely look more different.
“Thirty years after one of the pivotal clashes in the miners’ strike of 1984 when violent confrontations erupted at the Orgreave coking plant, the area outside Sheffield could barely look more different.
Then there were thousands of miners squaring off against police dressed in riot gear. Now there is an elaborate manufacturing park with an imposing Rolls-Royce building waiting to be opened. It is also where the final plans are being put together for a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in which companies will be able to solve problems away from their own shop floors.”