Closure of Grimethorpe Colliery
- Title
- Closure of Grimethorpe Colliery
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Music
- TX Date
- 14 May 1993
- Year of production
- 1993
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- Duration
- 00:03:42
- Description
- Report on the closure of Grimethorpe Colliery and the future of the famous Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band, who are heard playing Jerusalem. Speakers are Ken Hancock, NUM; Joan Maychin(?), Women Against Pit Closure campaign; Ken Hurst, Secretary of the Grimethrope Colliery Band. Oni Bhattacharya reports.
- Contributors
- Ken Hancock; Oni Bhattacharya; Joan Maychin(?); Ken Hurst
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Coal mining; Yorkshire; Unemployment; Employment; NUM; Mining; Coal miners; Protest movements; Coal mines; Mine closures; Drivetime (radio programme); Grimethorpe; Brass bands; Women Against Pit Closures
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