Central News East: 13.10.1992: Blidworth Closed Pit Village

Summary

On the day that British Coal announced that ten out of the remaining fifteen coal mines in the East Midlands were to close Phil Bayles visits Blidworth which lost its pit in 1989.

Year:

1992

Duration:

0:02:14

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

LTO6

Description

Interview with John Jones and Raymond Harris, miners who were made redundant from Blidworth Colliery seven years ago. They said that they had no work, felt degraded and were second class citizens. Shots of Jones and Harris working as volunteers in the local grave yard. Shots of the site of Blidworth Colliery. Interviews with men in a pub in Newstead, another village affected by the closure of its colliery. Terry Barker said that ninety percent of people were out of work. Views of Newstead village, houses and the station pub.


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