TEACHERS TOUR

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 10th Year

Issue

Issue No.

10

Date Released

Jun 1957

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1SONGS OF THE COALFIELDS: '16 Tons’
2. 2FIELDS OF COAL
3. 3TEACHERS TOUR

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

BFI synopsis: school masters visit to Chislet, Kent
NCB Commentary - The first story in this month’s Mining Review was about mining a century ago.
Now, here we are bang up to date. These visitors to the Kent coalfield come from a group who are particularly welcome these days.
They’re science masters and careers masters from schools in the South of England calling in to see something of the mining industry.
At Chislet Colliery, near Canterbury, they’re given a conducted tour.
These men are today teaching the coal-face workers, the technicians, the scientists and the mining executives of the future.
Conducted tours of this kind give school masters the background information they need to give their pupils a fair impression of opportunities and openings in Britain’s most basic industry.
The most spectacular part of their tour was of course, a visit underground.
1500 men at Chislet today are turning out ten thousand tons of coal a week.
The school masters went down to find out how they set about it and when they came up, over two hours later, they gave their impressions to a Mining Review camera team - above the noise and bustle of the pit bank.
There’s plenty of room for new talent in Britain’s mines today.

Keywords

Education and training; Mining

Locations

Kent; England

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.12 No.137 March 1958, p118.
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board