News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

Dec 1964

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. WARM AS TOAST
• 2. CONGRATULATIONS, GEORGE!
• 3. BIG WHEEL
• 4. DOWN TO THE SEA

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: the Brighton Housewarming Centre and the London Fireplace Fair.
NCB Commentary - One summer day at Brighton, the saying goes, is worth a week’s holiday somewhere else. Sun-shields are right on the nose.
But this is a November morning and Betty and David are on-the-beach with nothing particular in mind ... a day when things can turn one way or another.
David not only looks cold - he is cold -.
Here’s the newly-opened Brighton Housewarming Centre - one of a number in large towns throughout Britain. A curtain of warm air greets visitors at the door - but it doesn’t finish there. There is personal service for the enquiring visitor - or if you just want to browse - the place is yours.
There’s a kitchen showing a dual-purpose cooker which will also heat the water.
In October, at the Royal Horticultural Hall in London the first national Fireplace Fair was opened by Lord Robens.
For five days the trade and general public could see and inspect more than a hundred fireplaces and solid fuel appliances gathered under the one roof.
An inviting fire deserves a pleasing surround - and they come in styles to suit most tastes and purses.
Here’s an idea which will catch-on - a dual-purpose room-heater and boiler which can be built in as a single unit to warm the whole house.
The Brighton gulls still wheel and ride the November sea - but inside, in front of their new fireplace, Betty and David are home and dry - and warm as toast.

Keywords

Domestic life; Exhibitions and shows; Fuels

Locations

London; Brighton; England

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit