Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Craghead is a small mining village in Co Durham, struggling to survive in a nuclear age. A grimy pit, a few terraced streets of grit-blackened brick, and in the air a smell of coal...

June 1968: as the manager and men work hard to raise the coal output, with their families hoping for a future, the rumour is closure. Can their efforts avert this end? Is there a future for the village of Craghead?


Clip taken from A Year in the Life: For Craghead, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 5 October, 1969.





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