Dear Phillip
"Hungry Hill" by Du Maurier was filmed in the West of Ireland and is a
superb record of surface equipment etc.
Pat Cronin
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> From: Philip Clifford <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Mining History Movies
> Date: 03 July 1999 20:42
>
> Hello List
>
> I agree the thread on movies is interesting but am sad that the list is
not
> very large.
>
> I would like to recommend a documentary which was screened on November
7th
> (or thereabouts) last year, produced by Peter Barton, called 'The
> Underground War'. Narration is provided by Bernard Hill.
>
> Whilst not relating to coal mining as such it is a moving account of the
> efforts of thousands of colliery workers recruited in 1915 to dig mines
> under the German lines on the Western Front.
>
> As I say, not coal mining nor a film, but mining never the less, and the
> footage is all the more interesting as it includes interviews with a few
of
> the remaining miners from the period.
>
> From an Historian's point of view, the accuracy of the documentary is
> refreshing as it is interesting.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil Clifford
> Suffolk, UK.
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