Today marks 30 years since the start of the national Miners' Strike. Walkouts began on the 5th March 1984 in protest over proposed pit closures. On 12th March 1984, NUM president Arthur Scargill declared that all members should strike.
Thirty years ago women were at the heart of the miner's strike in Wales, the most bitter industrial dispute of late twentieth century. It lasted a year - but without the women's efforts the miners would have been forced back to work within weeks.
The women organised food collections, raised money and many joined picket lines for the first time and in turn, their own lives were radically changed. ITV Wales News looked back with one of those women.
Thirty years ago this week the biggest upheaval in post war Welsh history erupted - the 1984 miners’ strike.
Thirty years ago this week the National Coal Board announced pit closures which led to miners across Wales and the UK going on strike.