County Durham - DOREEN HENDERSON

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue

Issue No.

12

Date Released

Aug 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1County Durham - DOREEN HENDERSON
2. 2Lancashire - CASUALTY UNION
3. 3National story - RECLAMATION

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

BFI synopsis: A member of the well-known folk singing Elliott family. Doreen Henderson plays an active part in her mining community of Birtley, Co. Durham.
NCB Commentary - She’s a Durham woman who sings of Scotland.
It’s not surprising she sings as she does, because her name was Elliott before she married - Doreen Elliott, of the famous folk singing family from Birtley.
But Doreen Henderson is a woman of many parts. She sings - and to good purpose.
She’s in local governement politics.
She’s a mother of two - 11 year old Kay and 9 year old John.
And in what time she has over, she helps out at the local primary school.
Naturally, she does her best to plant the seeds of North-East folk singing in the hearts of her young charges.
Once a week, Doreen, and her family, are to be found at the Three Tuns, the local on the main road.
Here she, her husband and her brothers, come to make music, which is so large a part of their lives, and of the lives of so many mining folk.
People come to the Three Tuns from all over - to sing, to dance, to exchange the talk and the sayings that are at the root of folk music.
Doreen Henderson, one of the Elliotts, is at the hub of it all, as she is in all the various roles she plays as a woman of many parts in a mining community.

Keywords

Music and dance; Mining

Locations

England; County Durham

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