THE PRICE OF COAL Part 1

An online film show remembering Silverdale Pit. Archive films from the collection of Staffordshire Film Archive - from 1900 up to 1998. Starting with an introduction to the North Staffordshire coalfield, and showing the working life of miners, the migration of miners to North Staffordshire, local pit disasters, the Miners' Strike and the end of the coal industry when Silverdale closed in 1998 - the last deep coal mine in Staffordshire.