Camden Miniature Steam Services

Previously offered on video, here are two interesting B & W films. The first, and shorter, is Rhondda and Wye from 1948, which contrasts the pastoral Wye Valley with the coal-mining Rhondda Valley. The ‘main feature’ is The Cumberland Story, shot by Humphrey Jennings and released in 1947, which tells the story of the mechanisation of a Workington pit during WWII, when the workings were extended under the sea. It also covers the changes to working practices, which the mechanisation entailed in the then private mining industry, and how they led to nationalisation. Lots of underground footage, and an enjoyable couple of films.