Hi, and welcome back to the final part of our mini-series on Lesbians and Gay Support the Miners during the Great Minor Strike.

If you haven't listened to Parts 1 and 2 yet, I'd go back and listen to those first. Where we left off last time, LGSN was in full swing.

In terms of its size, the London group had around 100 people go through its meetings at various points, with a smaller central membership.

As secretary of the group, Mike Jackson kept track of everyone in London who was involved.

Although we did have lots of people passed through the meetings, and there wasn't

incident, there was no membership of LGSM, you know, he just turned up and you were lesbian

and gay, and, you know, I say that quite deliberately because the BT plus thing hadn't happened then.

You know, there was not such a thing as being a member of LTSM in any formal sense.

So at its core, really, I would say there was say 10 or 15 of us who were the core people who consistently went

at home collecting, consistently came to meetings, went on every visit to Wales.

I asked Martin and then Brett to explain a bit more about how LJSM grew around the country.

I mean, we were very much focused on what we were doing in London. Other groups did spring up, and I think they're about 10 or 11 groups.

I think there were smaller groups.

I think there was a reasonably sized one in Manchester.

Obviously, we had friends and supporters around the country, but when those groups did spring

up, it was very much a do-it-yourself,

do-it-your-own-way kind of approach. There wasn't any sort of national organisation.

It was people linking up with pits that were close to them geographically, I think, in the main.

And I think that was just the way it happened, because other

groups were forming, it was a national movement. The support groups were a national thing. So

people would just set their groups up, raise their money and send it on. In London at the

height, we would probably have in the meetings maybe 40, 50, sometimes

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