There were brutal clashes between pickets and police but the strike eventually collapsed the following March.
Noisy groups of often abusive pickets appeared at many of the bank's High Street branches.
But there would be no walkouts, pickets, slowdowns or other physical evidence of a strike.
Small pickets were formed outside BBC buildings in Cardiff and Bangor in support of the strike.
If the blockades had continued, sympathy for the pickets and blockers would have evaporated before long.
Pickets have been held at each hospital and a rally has taken place at Wakefield Town Hall.
Mr Bell said feelings were running very high and added pickets would be expected at all three hospitals.
One miner who apparently defied the pickets and went into work had the windows of his home smashed.
But there is no evidence that has anything to do with our pickets.
At Babbington colliery, police faced 2, 000 pickets and were pelted with stones when they made more than 60 arrests.
They will not face pickets and strikes, as they might in the West.
Despite the pickets, an estimated 60% of the nightshift still turned up for work and the colliery was able to operate.
Several pickets wore signs that said "I am a man" or "I am a woman, " echoing placards carried in Memphis in 1968.
There were also pickets at job centres and schools across the county.
The pickets were trying to stop coke getting out of the plant.
Indeed, the bridge behind me was a key point in that battle in the jostling for position between the police and the pickets.
Mr Frazer was asked if he now agreed with the Ulster People's Forum that white line pickets, not road blocks, were the way forward.
The two men had disagreed last week, after the forum called on protesters to stop blocking roads and move to white line road pickets instead.
Miners say plain clothes police have infiltrated picket lines and officers have also been turning away pickets thought likely to cause a breach of the peace.
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There have also been pickets at London Burberry stores.
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Joe DiMaggio sat on the tar of the playground, with his back against the wall on the Powell Street side, his legs cocked in front of him like a couple of pickets.
Although the strike is being carried out by NBRU members, Bus Eireann spokesman Andrew McLindon said it appeared members of other unions, SIPTU and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, were not passing pickets.
Whatever the merits of high taxes on fuel in ordinary circumstances, there is no respectable case for cutting them under present conditions, in the face of bully-boy tactics, actual or threatened, by pickets outside refineries.
My last interview with him was in February 2012 at a rally in Birmingham to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gates, when as an up-and-coming NUM activist he organised the flying pickets which succeeded in closing the Saltley coke depot, forcing the then Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath to concede a 27% pay increase.
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