Editing Woolley Colliery (section)

==Miner's Strike 1984–85==
During the [[UK miners' strike of 1984–1985]] roughly 70 per cent of the workforce at the colliery went on strike for a year,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Winterton|first1=Jonathan |last2=Winterton |first2=Ruth |title=Coal, Crisis, and Conflict: The 1984–85 Miners' Strike in Yorkshire |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=222|isbn=9780719025488 }}</ref> but the NUM branch leadership remained conservative about the use of [[flying picket]]s and union funds to help strikers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Winterton|first1=Jonathan |last2=Winterton |first2=Ruth |title=Coal, Crisis, and Conflict: The 1984–85 Miners' Strike in Yorkshire |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=101|isbn=9780719025488 }}</ref><ref name="Relief"/> There were arguments with the lodge at North Gawber Colliery on contributions to a kitchen, as it was claimed that Woolley, which was a much larger pit, was making a minimal contribution to feeding strikers.<ref name="Relief">{{cite book |last1=Winterton|first1=Jonathan |last2=Winterton |first2=Ruth |title=Coal, Crisis, and Conflict: The 1984–85 Miners' Strike in Yorkshire |publisher=Manchester University Press |pages=123–4 |isbn=9780719025488 }}</ref> After the strike the men from North Gawber were transferred to Woolley.