ROAD TO RECOVERY

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 5th Year

Issue

Issue No.

2

Date Released

Oct 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1MINING REVIEW INTERVIEWS N.C.B. CHAIRMAN
2. 2SPACE HEATING
3. 3ROAD TO RECOVERY
4. 4SHALE SPEEDWAY

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: a rehabilitation centre at Uddingston, Lanarkshire.
These men are injured miners - some of them are playing in plaster casts.
They’re being treated at the Uddingston Centre of the Lanarkshire Miners’ Rehabilitation Committee, where the ascent is on the kind of treatment that will best serve the men when they go back to the pits.
This is Robert Dougal, whose broken leg still needs loosening up before he’s fit for work. Some of the exercises he can do at home, and when he’s at the Centre, as well as having medical treatment he’ll take part in other games and exercises designed to bring into play the damaged muscles which would otherwise soon stiffen and be useless.
Robert Young had a back injury. So he’s doing jobs that make his strained muscles perform the familiar actions of his working life.
But there’s more to the treatment than games and building rock gardens and pushing tubs. They’ve built a model coal face at Uddingston where men can relive on the surface the crumped positions of their work underground. This way the muscles will get back their strength on the jobs they’re accustomed to.

Researcher Comments

BFI sources suggest that this story was filmed on the 20th June 1951.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Industry and manufacture

Locations

Scotland; Lanarkshire

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /3 Scripts for Mining Review, 1949-1956

Credits:

Support services

Basil Somner

Camera

Charles Wilford Smith

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Support services

John H. Shaw-Jones

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Director

Peter Pickering

Support services

S. Hart

Camera

Wolfgang Suschitzky