Eliza Hermitage, aged 101, goes down a coalmine

Title

Eliza Hermitage, aged 101, goes down a coalmine

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:01:21

Description

Interview with Eliza Hermitage, who is 101 years old and has just been down the world’s first underground mining museum, Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. Museum director Jonathan Bryant invited her to Stoke from her home town, Sandwich, Kent. She has three great ambitions: to go on a hovercraft trip, which she has done; to go down a mine, which she has now done; and to fly on Concorde. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Eliza Hermitage

Keywords

Coal mining; Kent; Elderly; Coal mines; Museums; Supersonic aeroplanes; Concorde; Old age; Stoke-on-Trent; Manchester Airport; Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum; Jonathan Bryant; Sandwich

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