Learning on ScreenAmicable Arrangement
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 18th Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: A stretch of derelict mining water in Yorkshire now a nature reserve
NCB Commentary - Off the Great North Road in Yorkshire stands Ferrybridge Power Station.
The original plant was built in 1927; ‘B’ station followed in 1959 and now a third station is abuilding. This complex will be the largest in Europe, turning some 6 million tons of coal a year into electricity.
Not far away is the village of Fairburn and below it lies a sheet of water - the Fairburn Ings Nature Reserve.
The haunt of coot ... and widgeon.
Castleford schoolmaster R. F. Dickens worked to have the water declared a nature reserve; he regularly brings children from the Airedale Secondary School.
Old Airedale boy - Charley Winn - who works in a nearby foundry - became so attached to the wild life that when he married he and his wife moved into a caravan overlooking the water.
Today Charley Winn looks after the Reserve ... and he knows every bird that visits, or lives, in his domain.
Birds are not caught for fun - there’s a reason for it. Ringing and dating - the study of migration ... and bird behaviour.
The Ings belong to the Coal Board. From Fryston colliery opposite, the dirt from underground is tipped.. Originally it was intended to fill in all this low lying ground.
But now the Coal Board have agreed not to encroach further, and the lake will be preserved.
Industry and a quite extraordinary Nature Reserve are to continue to exist side-by-side - an amicable arrangement. - Keywords
- Education and training; Environment; Horticulture; Mining
- Locations
- Yorkshire; England
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue 1969, p.50
The National Archives COAL 32 /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
- Production Co.
- National Coal Board Film Unit
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