BBC Archive | 1960: The delight of the MINERS' BRASS BAND PICNIC | Monitor 54 | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
John Gibson introduces us to the brass band carnival and the colliery band contest at Bedlington, Northumberland which occurs each year - as a grand occasion for the family - mixing politics, beauty queens and, of course, music.
John was representing Pegswood Colliery in Morpeth, Northumberland, which as he predicted was to soon close, doing so in 1969, some 101 years after it first opened.
This short film was directed by Ken Russell.
Clip taken from Monitor 54, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Sunday 3 July, 1960.
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John Gibson introduces us to the brass band carnival and the colliery band contest at Bedlington, Northumberland which occurs each year - as a grand occasion for the family - mixing politics, beauty queens and, of course, music.
John was representing Pegswood Colliery in Morpeth, Northumberland, which as he predicted was to soon close, doing so in 1969, some 101 years after it first opened.
This short film was directed by Ken Russell.
Clip taken from Monitor 54, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Sunday 3 July, 1960.
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