NETBALL

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 8th Year

Issue

Issue No.

10

Date Released

Jun 1955

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1ENTENTE CORDIALE
2. 2THE BIG WHEEL
3. 3NETBALL
4. 4PROFILE: FROM THE RANKS

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: Champion NCB netballers
NCB Commentary - Training in rain or shine, girl employees of the Sheffield National Coal Board Headquarters have had a good year in the field of sport.
One member of their sucessful netball team is 20-year-old Eileen Rudge, an electric accounting machine operator, who has been playing for her county as well as for the Coal Board.
That’s her - in the blackshorts. This was a regular lunchtime training game, but for Eileen Rudge it was the prelude to taking part in the Women’s All England Rally at Coventry. Hence the congratulations and good wishes from Major-General Sir Noel G. Holmes, Divisional Chairman, no mean sportsman himself.
A wet Saturday in Coventry severely limited play at the rally, though it didn’t damp the spectators’ enthusiasm.
Yorkshire won their morning match against Buckinghamshire and left the courts drenched but determined to go on to bigger things in the afternoon. Among visitors who braved the storm was Coventry’s Lord Mayor, making a shorter call than he’d expected.
Perhaps as a prelude to the cricket season, out came the most used noticeboard of the English summer - "Rain stopped play".

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 9 May 1955.

Keywords

Sport; Women; Mining

Written sources

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

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board