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    Also - here are some figures for mines
    1900 number of mines 3,384

    1947:........................... 958

    1955: .......................... 850.

    1965:........................... 483

    1975:........................... 241

    1985:........................... 131

    1995:............................ 65 (it is possible some of these are open-cast, not sure of that)

    There you are - closing mines was no nasty plot by Mrs T but a process over many years and, in fact, more were closed by Wilson and Callaghan than by Mrs T. I did see these figures somewhere and from memory it was around 100 more over the corresponding periods of government.

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