A 26- minute Yorkshire TV documentary from 1982 with an optimistic look at the future of coal in the county, accessible through the Yorkshire Film Archive website.
A transcript can be found here
Click hereĀ to see the film


A grinding wheel waiting to be taken down into the mine. One like this is now located on the cycle path near Escrick.
- Date
- 1982
- Ref no
- R2G/coal/film/
- Level
- Item
- Archive
- Yorkshire Film Archive
- Access status
- Link to Yorkshire Film Archive website
- Extent
- 26 minute TV documentary
- Theme
- Coalfield
- Decade
- 1980