The Price Of Coal (1977)

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  1. Old Goat

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    The "Staged Events" thread made me think of this, so I've dug it up on YouTube. It's a BBC play from 1977 about preparations for a royal visit at a Yorkshire pit. Written by Barry Hines, directed by Ken Loach.

    Apologies, I perhaps should have put it in the other thread, but I thought it deserved it's own.

     
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    It’s brilliant, watched it a few months ago, also try The Rank and File also on Youtube.
     
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    Watched part 1. Great film with typical yorkshire humour and old NCB attitudes.
     
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    Pit scenes were the old Barley Hall colliery between Wentworth and Thorpe Hesley, Club scenes were at Elsecar Midland (now Cobcar Sports and Social ) opening shots were filmed at the bottom of St. Helens street in Elsecar.
     
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    You are spot on with your observations , I remember well Barry using some of the lads from the Prince of Wales at Hoyland Common as extras & bit parts for the film , he used to come in the Prince which was full of the lads who worked at the local pits such as Rockingham , Elsecar & Barrow & he was just one of the lads like all of us , great pub , great times & of course "The Price of Coal" was a great production .
     
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    Great cameo role for Barry H, pit fitter from Dodeth .
    Painting everything that didn't move white.
     
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    This was brilliant television. The Price of Coal was screened in two parts. The first was hilariously funny with the preparations for the Royal visit. Everyone tuned into the second expecting more of the same, except it was anything but. It was deadly serious (literally) as it was about an underground disaster.
     
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    The two stories were based on true events in the seventies.
    The first was the Prince of Wales visit to The Prince of Wales Colliery in Pontefract and the second one was based on the Houghton Main Colliery disaster in Barnsley .
    Many of the scenes were based on true and factual stories taken from the miners of these collieries by Ken Loach and his researches .
    Also a lot of the actors and extras were ex miners or connected to the industry and communities .
     
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    Watched the two parts for the first time a few months ago after a recommendation on here. Very evocative of a time and place long gone. The brick was the funniest bit!
     
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    agreed
     
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    I enjoyed the exchange’s is the second episode between Stan Richards and Bobby knutt.
    Where they were getting changed and Bobby pulled of his shirt revealing a well honed torso and was looking in the mirror .
    Stans character started taking Micky and said something like how you got like that and to which Bobby replied Charles Atlas Bullworker or some thing similar .
    “Charles who said Stan mockingly “
    Tha knows !? Charles Atlas him who sent thee thi money back “ lol
    For those that don’t know Charles atlas was a champion body builder at the time and used to advertise bull workers in magazines wth the caption “your money back if it doesn’t work lol
     
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    Two great contrasting plays, the first eye wateringly funny, the second tragic. Typical of Hines & Loach
     
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    jackie shinn ex brodsworth and good mate of my dads, he once sat me in a full horse trough outside broddy wages office ( i'd be 3/4 yo) 'cos my dad told me to tell him to bugger off
     
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    The true price of coal was illustrated in part 2.
     
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    I Was under the impression. Skiers spring colliery ( near Elsecar) was used for colliery scene. ??
     
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    Watched the second part tonight and it shows that the price of coal paid by some was a high one. My dad worked at Grimethorpe pit all his life and his mate Harry who did the illustrations in the miners magazine was killed in a roof fall.As a kid I can remember the times waiting and worrying about him when he was late home from work. No mobiles or even house phones then.
     
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    Most families in this area have personal stories of accidents, deaths and injuries in mining. South Yorkshire probably has had the 'lion's share' of pit disasters. Oaks the biggest of all with 361 killed. Denaby, Swaithe,Thornhill, Cortonwood it's a long list there's many more.
     
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    The true price of coal is my 2 bad knees, carpal tunnel in my hands with thanks to the Holman borer and a big blue scare running down mi back.
     
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    Still, at least you’re a Barnsley Fan.

    sh*t. Not been easy has it.
     
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    It was . But it is at Spring wood between Hoyland common and Harley, not Elsecar.
     
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