Paul Kelly was just 18-years-old when he went he first went down the pit. As the son and grandson of miners, coal was a way of life in his family.
On his first day at work at Agecroft Colliery in Salford he joined the National Union of Mineworkers. Just six years years later he would take a stand that would come to define his life.
On March 5, 1984, miners at Cortonwood Colliery near Barnsley, South Yorks, walked out in protest at the proposed closure of the pit. It heralded the start of Miners Strike, the longest and most bitter industrial dispute in British history.
