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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