STITCH IN TIME

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 13th Year

Issue

Issue No.

5

Date Released

Jan 1960

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1STITCH IN TIME
2. 2STOCKS FOR WATTS
3. 3JOHNNY SCHOFIELD
4. 4ON CALL

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: One of the unusual hobbies of miner Charlie Palfreyman is embroidery
NCB Commentary - This is Mapperley Colliery, near Ilkeston in Nottinghamshire and here with his mate, Frank Peacock, is Charlie Palfreyman. Charlie started work at Mapperley when he was 14, 34 years ago and he’s worked underground there ever since.
At home he is a man of many hobbies. Working in a shed he built himself he will make a model of almost anything you like to mention. He’s won many prizes at handicraft exhibitions and this year is entering his work for the big national show in London.
Anything from ships to cigarette boxes come easily to Charlie - his tough miner’s hands produce the most delicate examples of craftsmanship.
But perhaps the most surprising of his many hobbies is embroidery. A few years ago Charlie was seriously ill - work and model making were impossible - but to a man of his ‘up-and-doing’ personality something just had to be found to pass the time - so he added to his accomplishments the title of expert needleman.
Charlie’s work is much in demand - after all it isn’t every wife who has a husband who makes the tablecloths - Charlie’s illness has certainly had surprising results.

Researcher Comments

Commentary recorded 7th December 1959.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Arts and crafts; Mining

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.14 No.167 September 1960, p520.
The National Archives COAL 32   /12 Scripts for Mining Review, 1956-1960

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board