Up the Lane and Back Again - Titterstone Clee Hill - Alf Jenkins (DVD)
Description
Alf Jenkins, DVD (approx 60 mins)
This is the story of the remote Titterstone Clee Hills of South Shropshire which stand majestically and ominously one thousand feet above the beautiful Welsh Marches town of Ludlow. The views from these hills are probably the most extensive in Britain.
The opening is live footage of one of the longest railway inclines in Britain built to transport coal.
Models and black and white photographs supplement videoing to illustrate the harsh life of 'carver' boys and colliers in the coal pits. Panning of modern colour shots onto black and white originals show the limestone industry, settlements, brickmaking, eleven and a half thousand tons of stone being blasted in the famous stone quarries, farming, everyday life on the hills and a conversation in a squatter's cottage setting of the unique Clee Hill dialect, not understood in neighbouring Ludlow. A precious microcosm of social and industrial history.
This is the story of the remote Titterstone Clee Hills of South Shropshire which stand majestically and ominously one thousand feet above the beautiful Welsh Marches town of Ludlow. The views from these hills are probably the most extensive in Britain.
The opening is live footage of one of the longest railway inclines in Britain built to transport coal.
Models and black and white photographs supplement videoing to illustrate the harsh life of 'carver' boys and colliers in the coal pits. Panning of modern colour shots onto black and white originals show the limestone industry, settlements, brickmaking, eleven and a half thousand tons of stone being blasted in the famous stone quarries, farming, everyday life on the hills and a conversation in a squatter's cottage setting of the unique Clee Hill dialect, not understood in neighbouring Ludlow. A precious microcosm of social and industrial history.
