DOWNBEAT

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 9th Year

Issue

Issue No.

7

Date Released

Mar 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1HEARTH AND HOME
2. 2WHITE MINE
3. 3FLIGHT LOADING
4. 4DOWNBEAT

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: jazz enthusiasts at a Kent colliery club.
NCB Commentary - It’s Sunday Afternoon at Aylesham Institute.
Men of Snowdon Colliery sit and listen to the band, a local combination this, the Thanet Hot Club, led by Coal Board Surveyor Norman Kirk on drums.
The band has strong connections with the Mining Industry and has given sessions all over the Kentish Coaldfield.
Alf Robson, on bass, works underground at Chislet.
Pat Evans on clarinet now holds a Coal Board scholarship at Reading University.
The Band’s mascot, known to everyone as Sambo, is 9-year old David Plews, son of a Snowdon colliery ripper. For over 4-years now the band has been making music around the Kent Coalfield. They get fun - so do the audiences. Good luck to ‘em.

Keywords

Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Mining

Locations

Kent; England

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board