Nottinghamshire - Rained on!

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 21st Year

Issue

Issue No.
4
Date Released
Dec 1967
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Syczyglowice
  2. 2Nottinghamshire - Rained on!
  3. 3Nottinghamshire - Clean Fun
  4. 4County Durham - Hot Time in the New Town

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
NoS synopsis: Children of Cotgrave miners revive an old tradition
NCB Commentary - The kids at Cotgrave are so keen that it would take a hurrican to keep them from practice.
Ordinary English rain doesn’t count: The new Cotgrave Imperials Carnival Band, will carry on sharpening up their marching and countermarching even when it’s coming down cats and dogs.
There used to be a big tradition of marching bands in the Nottingham and Derby coalfields, and the Cotgrave boys and girls are starting to build up popular interest again.
Parents have helped provide the uniforms when the kid’s pocket money hasn’t run to it. The next big drive will be for more instruments. That’s a local dog - nothing to do with the weather.
The man responsible for this re-birth of marching bands in the Midlands comes from the North. Andrew White was transferred down to Cotgrave Colliery from Newcastle. The sounds of the Imperials Carnival Band are an echo of what it was like back home.
Keywords
Children; Customs and traditions
Locations
England; Nottinghamshire; Cotgrave
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue   1969, p.54
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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