Former miner's memories at the end of the coal industry

As miners at Kellingley Colliery prepare to work their final shifts before the axe falls on it and the coal industry, one of the country's oldest living pit men looks back on an industry which once employed a million men and after Friday will employ none.

Joe Broadbent first worked as a miner aged 18 when the UK pits were in private hands. Now 91, the Yorkshire pensioner, who spent all his working life in the pits, believes the ending of coal mining is a national tragedy.

Joe, of Wakefield, survived a horrific underground accident at Lofthouse Pit but he had to spend nearly 18 months encased in plaster in hospital with leg injuries. Today, his legs still have the deep scars, a permanent reminder of a time which took him, his wife and four children to near destitution as he received no pay all the time he was on sick.

But Joe loved his work as a miner, as he shares his memories with ITV Calendar: