King Coal, which once powered Yorkshire’s industrialisation, may have been dethroned but he is not yet dead. While hundreds of mines have closed since the end of the 1985 strike the region still has a handful of working deep mines in private hands.

The legacy of plentiful coal is a chain of giant power stations, including Drax, the UK’s biggest coal-fired plant, and heavy industry such as steel and chemical production. Yorkshire produces 18 per cent of the UK’s electricity but consumes just 7 per cent of it.