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For many in Yorkshire, its gates will always be 'the Alamo', the trees in fields to the north a place where sanctuary was found from police cavalry charges. But soon they will be no more.
Orgreave colliery, site of the most infamous pitched battle between police and miners during the 1984 miners' strike, is closing down, ending its 150-year link with the coal industry.
UK Coal, the colliery's operator, has maintained Orgreave as an open- cast mine for the past 10 years, extending a heritage which included Arthur Scargill's stand against the Tory's pit closure policy.
Production will come to a complete halt next week and the 50 men who have dragged the last of the coal from the mine will begin the job of flattening the spoil heaps to make way for houses and business units. 'There's no disguising the sadness people feel about the demise,' said Derek Harrison, the site manager at Orgreave. 'Thirty years ago, this industry employed 250,000 people and now it's a fraction of that.'
There is no disguising the sadness among workers...