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Interview with Steve Oxley, grandson of a miner, now working as a guide at the National Coal Mining Museum for England. His grandfather became a miner in 1918, aged 13,
Steve worked at Selby from 1985 to its closure in 2004
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Steve’s interview offers extensive insights into the Miners strike and the government strategy at the time and contains a lot of information about the development of the Selby pit complex