| KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING Striking miners discover and work little coal mines off their own. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8250 |
| Catalog #: | 244871 | |
| Clip Number: | 244871-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1304 | |
| Timecode: | 10:19:26 - 10:22:52 | |
| Location: | Dudley, Staffordshire (West Midlands). | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY/MINING: Coal LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England | |
| Description: | KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING. Miners on strike discover and work little mines of their own. Dudley, Staffordshire (West Midlands). Panning shot over a sloping field, many small holes have been dug in it, miners and their ponies sit around them. Panning shot showing a man standing in one of the holes, he passes a bucket of dirt to another man who sieves it. There are little bonfires all over the field. High angled shot looking down into a small pit (about 10 feet deep). Two men sit in the bottom of it, one uses a pickaxe to chip at the pit walls. M/S of the man using the axe. M/S of a lad at the top of a pit using a pulley to lift buckets of dirt. The dirt is passed to another man to sieve. Various shots of dirt being lifted from the mini-pits, a horse and cart waits in the background to be loaded with coal. | |
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