1960: The delight of the MINERS' BRASS BAND PICNIC | Monitor 54 | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

[@fredo1070]

Those documentary crews were really something, like watching a mini movie.

[@JohnHonda101]

My Paternal and Maternal Grandparents would have been at this event, my parents too. Sadly none of them no longer here.

[@JohnHonda101]

8min 4sec, I still have my Club Cards for Pegswood Miners club.

[@heinkle1]

A truly lost world - closer to the 19th than 21st century

[@JohnHonda101]

My neck of the woods.

[@JJONNYREPP]

1961: The delight of the MINER's BRASS BAND PICNIC | Monitor 54 | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive. 10.5.24. brass is still of interest....to many. many's the time, after a skinful, when conductor X fell from his soap box....

[@davids8449]

britain is just a large lump of earth with rain people live on in 2024

[@scroggins100]

My Grandfather was a Miner... Nuff said!

[@ThinWhite_Duke]

The country we were. The country we could've been still

[@andydixon2980]

Indigenous English people all together having a jolly nice time. Who ever said Diversity strengthens community......load of bull.

[@westyham1]

Nearly good as that lot in the film Brassed off.

[@harryjones5260]

i think Grimethorpe will be a shade insulted by that comment

[@folksurvival]

It's a shame so many of them were subverted by the Labour party.

[@davidharwood9552]

Is there a picnic 🧺 2024 I would like to attend