Moseley Colliery Manchester. Some great footage

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Roy Morton
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12 years ago

Seven minutes packed with all sorts of views of the colliery, plus a visit from Prince (Phil the Greek) Phillip.
Includes scenes of shaft sinking, Kibble riding, and a scale model demonstrating the handling of the coal.
Please note! there is no soundtrack, so don't go pulling your PC to pieces looking for the fault 🙂 Enjoy!

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/selected-originals-prince-philip-down-mine-1/query/newsreels

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Pinzgauer
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12 years ago

Excellent find Roy! A bit of something for everyone there. Just makes you a little/very sad that's it's all gone now.

I wonder which poor sod was sent out to whitewash all the stones in the retaining wall of the approach road? (about 0:25 in).

Who threw the overalls in Mrs Murphy''s Chowder ??

Morrisman
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12 years ago

I love the way Prince P. walks past the crowd and ignores them all!! Don't think the Royals had gone through any PR training then. It was still "them and us". Great piece of film though. There are loads of British Pathe film clips around from that period, including a few school instruction one about Cornish mining. Most of the ones I have come across are silent.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

somersetminer
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12 years ago

"Morrisman" wrote:
I love the way Prince P. walks past the crowd and ignores them all!! Don't think the Royals had gone through any PR training then. It was still "them and us". Great piece of film though. There are loads of British Pathe film clips around from that period, including a few school instruction one about Cornish mining. Most of the ones I have come across are silent.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Morrisman, have you come across these?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm/topics/tin-mining/
some pretty rare footage there