HOLIDAY ON WHEELS

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 16th Year

Issue

Issue No.
2
Date Released
Oct 1962
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1HOLIDAY ON WHEELS
  2. 2STONEMAN
  3. 3FRED’S PITCH
  4. 4THE LIMBURG WALK

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 4
Summary
BFI synopsis: paraplegic miners and their families on holiday at Filey, Yorkshire.
NCB Commentary - This Summer twenty-eight paraplegic miners and their families had a fortnights holiday at a Holiday Camp at Filey, Yorkshire - guests of the Northern Divisional Coal Board Welfare Committee.
In Paraplegia you cannot move the lower half of your body; it results usually from an injury to the spine.
As at home, Mrs. Smith was up before her husband.
William Charlton and George Davison take a turn at table bowls against Henry Elliott and Andrew Scots. When the facilities of a holiday camp are at your disposal - even a wheelchair has its advantages.
Campers cars are kept off the roads in the camp - but as a special concession miners who bring their own can park handily.
The childrens’ playground is as good a placce as any to keep an eye on the youngsters - to study form and work up an appetite in the bracing Yorkshire air.
In the evenings there is plenty of entertainment - a choice of ballrooms; to watch the dancing; enjoy the music and the company of friends.
For a change there are more people outside the Camp’s heated swimming pool than in the water - diving championships; campers’ inter-house competitions and special events for teenagers.
And here’s one for the family album. The camp make special arrangements to take the miners and their families - although they are not normally equipped to cater for chairborne guests.
This is only one instance of the industry looking after its own men like these - their mining days over, deserve a place in the sun and the friendly company of people they know and request.
Researcher Comments
Commentary recorded at Kays Carlton Hill on 3rd September 1962.
Keywords
Entertainment and leisure; Mining; Disabled persons
Locations
Yorkshire; England; Filey
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963
Credits:
Production Co.
Documentary Technicians Alliance
Sponsor
National Coal Board

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