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Title: MINING REVIEW 10 No. 10 FOURTEENTH YEAR

Reference number: 5706

Date: 1961

Production company: p.c Data Production

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 9.40 mins

Description: Tulip Time: The annual Festival of Flowers at Spalding in Lincolnshire. The flower growing industry uses large quantities of solid fuel for greenhouse heating - a fact recognised by the entry of a float decorated with 23,000 tulips bearing the slogan 'Everything Flourishes on Coal'; Visit to Ayr: An invitation by Mr. Emrys Hughes (M.P. for South Ayrshire) results in boys from Eton College visiting the Scottish Coalfields, One of the places visited is the new colliery at Killoch, built to yield a million tons of coal a year [synopsis from booklet Films on Coal Withdrawn from General Circulation].

See also Ayr Advertiser of 13th April 1961, p. 8 for lengthy report about the Eton schoolboys visit to Auchinleck, featured in this film. This could be the article that the boy is actually seen reading in the film?

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Credits: sd. RCA

Shotlist: MINING REVIEW 10 FOURTEENTH YEAR (0.15) In this issue - Stories from Lincolnshire and Ayrshire (0.22) LINCOLNSHIRE Tulip Time (0.31) gvs of tulip fields, greenhouses full of tulips, floats fully decorated with tulips, people in fancy dress costumes from fairytales sitting on floats, parade of floats with brass band through Spalding (3.51) AYRSHIRE Visit to Ayr (3.57) gvs of boys coming off train from Eton in Cumnock [including Jeremy Cripps the grandson of Stafford Cripps, his cousin Francis Cripps, Val Lewthwaite, Jonathan Aitken, Piers Rodgers, Richard Mews and John Aschun - all 17 years old at the time]. General views as they travel by car to homes of miners [including ex-Provost James Holland in Cumnock, and James Wilson, George Montgomery, George Young, Joe Patrick and James Tanner, all in Auchinleck]. Boys and girls dancing in hall and boy reading newspaper report about it next day [possibly the Ayr Advertiser, 13th April 1961], boys visiting Barony colliery and preparing to visit pit face, views of Killoch, boys and girls dancing in hall in Auchinleck, old men playing dominoes, cards, drafts, women playing bowls, boys visiting winding wheel at Killoch, and visiting Barony pit; gvs new housing scheme at Drongan, miner's children dancing, Drongan's entertainment (9.32) A DATA PRODUCTION 1961 THE END (9.40)