TOUCHE

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

Jul 1959

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1FAMILY PARTY
2. 2TOUCHE
3. 3GEORDIE BROWNE
4. 4NEW LOOK

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

NoS synopsis: students at Wigan mining and technical college practise fencing and gymnastics in their spare time.
NCB Commentary - Trevor Prebble and Sean O’Roirdan are coal board apprentices and students at the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College. They’re expert fencers too but that’s by the way. Their main object is to learn the arts and skills of electrical and mechanical engineering from men like Reg Shaw. The first year of their course is all spent at the college, during the others they attend only one day a week, the rest of the time being spent in planned work at the pit.
Physical fitness is important to their future as miners so they strengthen muscles and learn the agility which still stand them in good stead later in life.
Rescue work is forshadowed in this part of their training, how to surmount obstacles with a body aboard.

Keywords

Sport; Students; Mining

Locations

England; Lancashire; Wigan

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Film User   Vol.14 No.160 February 1960, p82.
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board