Coal Town

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Mik Critchlow's epic documentary about the last years of coal mining in Ashington and England's North East. - For the past 42 years, Mik Critchlow has been photographing the town and people and surrounding areas of Ashington, the town in which he was born, educated and still lives.Ashington is a small coastal town, north of Newcastle Upon Tyne, in Northumberland. Before the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, it was the headquarters of the Ashington Coal Company, which paternally controlled the work, housing, education, leisure and social behaviour of its workforce.The town owed its ...

Read More very existence to coal mining but, although extracting coal was the dominant factor in their lives, miners and their families shared many interests and enjoyed a strong tradition of community life.Mik's great-grandfather moved with his family from the coalfield

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