ANOTHER ENGLAND 3 BLACK BEACH

"Another Engand 4 : Blue Lagoon"
"Another England" is a cycle of films exploring a town on the edges of English society. It is a meditiation on this marginal, sometimes otherworldly place, and the characters that haunt it.
What does it mean to belong to somewhere? The four films explore different aspects of the complexity of belonging: "Blue Lagoon" the final film in the cycle, looks at it through the eyes of the misfits who have a romantic and even mystical connection to the wildllife and the haunting sense of place of the petrochemical estuary on the edges of the town.

[@johnevans7389]

Collected sea coal on the Headland, in the 70's. Hartlepool folk are Good people. The council demolished our village of Graythorpe, and we moved away. Will never forget this town. Thanks for the memories.

[@christiphermeadows5348]

Im from the pit villages...n me mam n dad spent all there workin lives in the town..they always sed that the people in the town were the salt of the earth...loved them..

[@gsmini1749]

Lad in the white top riding the horse towards the end has passed away now, god bless you Jack my mate🙏🙏

[@martinmcgowan4591]

May he have a bed in heaven

[@noelfleming3567]

Sorry about ur friend I grew up in d 60s 70s and lost a few good mates in d last few yrs

[@keithpilkington907]

Love it thanks for sharing I remember in Northumberland I think it was the old boys used too fight over it

[@christiphermeadows5348]

Great little documentarie that..thoroughly enjoyed it

[@kevinparkes4084]

First shots with the trotting look like Seaton Carew, then switches to the beach around the old Steetley Magnesite Works. We need laws in place to prevent Companies just shutting down and leaving all their crap behind. As for the sea coal, it was a free resource which helped many people in poverty survive in the past. As a kid growing up in Hartlepool, I remember seeing blokes wheeling bikes off the beach, loaded with 2-3 cwt of sea coal in sacks. As usual the council felt the need to get their snouts in the trough by licensing commercial traders to gather off the beaches.
Sea Coal still gets washed up at every tide even today, some fifty years after the pits were shut

[@peman3240]

that coal is the remain of ancient extraction industry ? whem i was in a trwaler we used to fish some coal from sea bed, it was always a msitery fro me, thought it was stuff that felt some ancient vapour shipt, but i dont know, that bring me here. Cheers

[@BrokenSymmetryBand]

Really enjoyed that, thanks

[@noelfleming3567]

Great film can't beat looking back how we grew up

[@AbandonEarth911]

I remember old Ken Kirby on the Sea coal, at Hartlepool.

[@jl8217]

The horses swimming at 12 mins is great!

[@jaeme677]

Cracking TH-cam film 👍

[@AbandonEarth911]

It's grim up North just another day in paradise.

[@letsgetdigging7418]

Great film

[@Nilsis1986]

seacoal was always there, it was in fact the first kind of coal that burned in the stoves (in the middle
ages) of britain.

[@fellist6271]

It's a real shame and it's jarring whenever the working class as a profession poet is brought in, as at 11:30. No mediation was needed, no interpretation - no offstage narration. Especially not anything so artificial as poetry, even if had been delivered without an affected speech pattern. People have their own poetry and their own words and it was enjoyable getting to know them. The poetry broke the connection between the audience and subject.

[@janwong9437]

My late mam was born into a mining family in Blackhall 1920

[@jacko74fisher70]

Nice film

[@harryturnbull4781]

Are there any sea-coalers left? Im researching summat.