BOWman

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 8th Year

Issue

Issue No.

1

Date Released

Sep 1954

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1COMBINED OPERATIONS
2. 2BOWman
3. 3BURNING BRIGHT
4. 4PLOUGHING FAST

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

BFI Summary - disabled ex-miner leads amateur archers.
NCB Commentary - The William Tell of Coundon in County Durham is Bill Green, a miner at Leasingthorpe Colliery until he was disabled 16 years ago.
To-day you will find him out and about, passing on the skill he has developed at his hobby to eager groups of local children. The first thing they must learn is how to string a bow themselves.
On the field, Bill Green controls operations from his wheelchair which he has made the centre of a flourishing archery club numbering grown-ups and other disabled miners amond its members.
The Archers of Coundon are prominent in the local county Archery League - and it takes time and patience to train people up to League standard.
Many disabled men first took up archery as part of their hospital treatment. To-day, thanks to Bill Green, they can carry on their sport in their home village.
Bill Green looks pleased with himself, as well he may, both for his skill and for the way in which he has surmounted his disablement.

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 5 August 1954.

Keywords

Sport; Education and training; Children; Disabled persons

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.9 No.109, November 1955, p570.

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board