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BBC Film
Some short films on coal mining in the north east including a fascinating insight into Radcliffe "lost" village
BBC Nation on Film__Coal Mining if anyone can post a link Last edited by Pete; 16-04-2010 at 07:57 PM. Reason: Not being clever enuff to post a link |
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I think I know the clip you're thinking about and I can't get the direct link to work either, but it's the last link on this BBC page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/lo...mberland.shtml Housing for Miners - New Housing ........Radcliffe is going to die.... (Radcliffe people soon to move to Amble) |
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Been racking my brain to try and remember the bbc interviewer's name. Michael Rodd it is.
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Don't know his name, but the feller he was interviewing gave a good account of himself. It may have been a tin bath in front of the fire and a stand pipe in the street, but you can't buy a sense a community like that.
I had a job in Cotgrave, Notts three or four year ago and going for a pint after work, i was mobbed by a gang of old timers when they heard my accent. Turns out they'd moved down there in the 70's to work at the pit when Radcliffe came down. I had many a home cooked meal despite being 200 miles from home. Best folk in the world, us |
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It all looks rather peaceful and idyllic, how times change.
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my uncle was from radcliffe
hi
1234567 Last edited by amble; 14-09-2010 at 07:10 AM. |
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Radcliffe Village
I have now got a good copy of the BBC dvd of Radcliffe
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Is this available for purchase anywhere templesam?
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Radcliffe Village
Eventually posted the film of my dad talking about Radcliffe Village on YOU TUBE = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up2mvz7y-Po
Should the link not work ,simply type "Radcliffe Northumberland" in the search box on you tube Last edited by Coquet; 02-10-2014 at 12:55 PM. Reason: fix link |
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That's a longer version I think? can't remember seeing the war memorial in the first film.
It's a very nice film record of the village anyway. |
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Just watched it Templesam, excellent! I did as you suggested and typed in Radcliffe, Northumberland.
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Fascinating, thankyou for your efforts in getting the film
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I can remember Temple clearly from my time at Whittle. Proper gentleman. Did he start at Broomhill/Hauxley? Or did he start up there (Shillbottle/Whittle)
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Excellent , seems good quality too . I've downloaded it to watch on the TV screen later .
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Temple was a Hauxley man, I believe he was a Duke School boy who went to the pit. When I started in 1958 he was on filling and a union official, he went on to deputy work before Hauxley closed. As I was at Shilbottle and he at Whittle I don't know whether or not he went on to be an overman but he had the headpiece to have gone far.
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Great stuff!
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All this chat about Radcliffe has made me remember , that about 1973/4, a butcher I was training with, as a bairn, used to have his "rounds" on a fri night. His name was Alfred (Alf) Moore, from Warkworth. I remember clearly us going to the clubs at Togston and Radcliffe, in his blue Bedford van, delivering the "meat raffles", and we ended up at the Railway, at Acklington, which is were I had my first ever pint at the age of 15 ha ha ha
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