Most of today has been spent putting together the first of the 12 books I hope to make for Project LV One.  These things time, experience has taught me that if I were to rush this then I would be disappointed.  However, whilst I have been doing this another idea has been rolling around the vast caverns of my mind and in a way it is all thanks to this man – Arthur Scargill.

30 years ago this year he lead one of the proudest and by many standards moderate unions on one of the most disasterous political/industrial  actions of modern British history.   The whys and wherefores can be argued elsewhere but at the end of the 1985/5 miners strike the coal industry was left on its knees and the thing that Scargill predicted would happen happened – most of the deep mine capacity in Britain was closed.   However, if it had only been an industrial dispute then that would have been bad enough but mining for many villages it was their death.   Many thousands of people were effected by the outcome of the dispute and many still carry the scares both physical and emotional.

So 30 years later is the idea of the project – hardly original I know and at the moment that is all I have to go on.  Well that isn’t true but at the moment the other details I think need to be worked on just a little more.   Just one though does occurs to me as I write this.  30 years ago I had not idea that I was able to produce a reasonable likeness of someone by using just a pencil.

Whatever happened to the Heroes…No More Heroes