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Northumberland - YOUNG ENTERPRISE

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 20th Year

Issue

Issue No.
8
Date Released
Apr 1967
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Lancashire - SAFETY COMMANd POST
  2. 2East Midlands - COAL COUNTIES
  3. 3Northumberland - YOUNG ENTERPRISE

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Summary
BFI synopsis: Ashington and Beglinton youngsters devote their weekends to clearing Embleton beach, Northumberland, of war debris.
NCB Commentary - Ashington - a big hearted colliery with a civic minded community grown up on the coal.
Youngsters from Ashington and Bedlington schools stream in on a Saturday morning to catch the bus. They’re going off on a 25 mile ride - and there’s a serious purpose behind their excursion.
Up through the coastal villages they ride, and down to the grey North Sea at Embleton Bay, National Trust land.
At one end is Holy Isle; rich in Church history. At the other, the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle.
The beach at Embleton Bay was a beauty spot, once. The boys and girls from Ashington have come along to make it one again.
For ever since the war, the beach has been a perilous playground. Relics of World War Two still stand, and hidden in the dunes and on the sands are too many instances of the litter of a war fought before these youngsters were born.
So it’s operation clean-up to which the boys and girls devote their winter weekend.
Man behind the scheme is 24 years old Michael Duffy, a student mining engineer who works with the Civic Trust as a Community Service Volunteer.
Northumberland County Council helped out with the loan of tools. The Ashington Rotary Club lent transport. But it’s the youngsters themselves who did the job, and their reward is in the knowledge that they’ll have made Embleton Beach safe again for the folk who will flock there for relaxation in the summer.
Keywords
Social welfare
Locations
England; Northumberland; Embleton
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963
Credits:
Sponsor
National Coal Board
Production Co.
National Coal Board Film Unit

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