Nottinghamshire - Clean Fun
Series
- Series Name
- Mining Review 21st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: A miner, Eric Hodgkinson at Selston Colliery, is the new European heavyweight wrestling champion under the name of Vince Apollo
NCB Commentary - Selston Colliery is a big mine - more than 1/2 a million tons a year.
Plenty of big men work there, but perhaps none bigger than, 17 stone Eric Hodgkinson, otherwise known as Vince Apollo.
Eric - or Vince, take your choice - is the new European heavyweight wrestling champion. At this open air exhibition bout it’s easy to see he’s no novice at the grunt and groan game.
Yet another deciding fall to bring Vince nearer to his 500th victory in the ring. No training problems for him - his daily stint underground at Selston is all he needs to keep in trim. - Keywords
- Mining; Wrestling
- 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:
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- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
- Production Co.
- National Coal Board Film Unit
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