Get a piece of history that will grace your dvd collection.
This is the souvenir 6 DVD Box Set looking back at Ellington Colliery.
Ellington Colliery opened in 1909, was the last mine to close in the Northumberland coal fields in 2005.
In this collection we look at Ellington Colliery as you have never seen it before.
The first disk is Ellington Colliery 1909-2005. Here we see the colliery from its early days to its demise.
Disk Two is a visit to the Brass Thill. The Brass Thill is a district within the colliery where the future of the pit was to be. In this DVD we travel from the surface by the cage then by way of locomotive, visit the district and back to the surface.
Disk Three is the colliery at production. See the methods of extracting coal underneath the North Sea.
In Disk Four we visit underground again and also see the closure of this once great colliery.
Disk Five is the Final Chapter in its life.
Disk Six is still shots of the last coal miners at work before finally exiting the colliery for the last time.
This DVD is a must-have for anyone interested in coal mining and is very educational.
See Ellington Colliery as you have never seen it before in this Boxed Souvenir Collection.
This has certainly got to be the most informative history of any colliery in the United Kingdom.
Superb quality archive footage and a must for anyone interested in mining history.
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 19 August, 2008.
