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Old 16-04-2010, 07:49 PM
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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

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Old 17-04-2010, 03:21 AM
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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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Old 17-04-2010, 10:56 AM
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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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Old 21-04-2010, 12:17 AM
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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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Old 21-04-2010, 08:48 PM
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It all looks rather peaceful and idyllic, how times change.



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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
I think there was a big recruiting drive for the nottinghamshire coalfields in the 70s, the Radcliffe men would've been ideal candidates
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Default my uncle was from radcliffe

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Default Radcliffe Village

I have now got a good copy of the BBC dvd of Radcliffe
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Old 03-05-2013, 10:23 AM
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I have now got a good copy of the BBC dvd of Radcliffe
Is this available for purchase anywhere templesam?
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Old 01-10-2014, 08:37 PM
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Default 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

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Old 02-10-2014, 01:01 PM
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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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Old 02-10-2014, 02:07 PM
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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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Old 02-10-2014, 06:52 PM
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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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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)
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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