LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Closure of Mardy Colliery

Genre

News report; Interview; Music

TX Date

21 Dec 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:50

Description

John Gripton reports on the pithead community service marking the closure of Mardy, the last remaining colliery in the Rhondda Valleys and reaction to the closure. Includes interviews with miner Len Evans; local MP Allan Rogers; miner Mike Richard. Also includes poem and singing by local schoolchildren (to brass band) and the community, and the last shift siren.

Contributors

Len Evans; Allan Rogers; Mike Richards; John Gripton

Keywords

Coal mining; Wales; Coal miners; Coal mines; Schoolchildren; Mardy Colliery; Brass band music

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