COUNTY SHOW

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue

Issue No.

2

Date Released

Oct 1958

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1MARK TWAIN
2. 2COUNTY SHOW
3. 3MINEWATCHING
4. 4A TIME TO DIVE

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: the N.C.B.'s stand at the Durham County Show.
NCB Commentary - At Lambton Park, Chester-le-Street, the Durham County Show offers two days of country entertainment. From agricultural equipment to live stock exhibits the range of the County’s farming interests was on show. As befits a predominently mining County, colliery workers figured high among successful exhibitors. Alan Belgian and Jack Johnson are just two of them.
The Coal Board, representing the keystone of County Durham’s prosperity, set up a stand whose exhibits showed country folk something of how the mining fraternity work and live. In Durham County the links between the coal industry and the agricultural community remain strong.

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 8th September 1958.

Keywords

Mining; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

England; County Durham

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.13 No.150 April 1959, p193.
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board