Bbc Archive
@bbcarchive·780K subscribers·1.9K videos
1969: Craghead Colliery | A Year in the Life | BBC Archive
Posted
April 11, 2026
Views
751,601
Likes
9,121
Comments
1,879
Engagement
1.46%
April 11, 2026
751,601
9,121
1,879
1.46%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
43:12Now PlayingCraghead is a small mining village in Co Durham, struggling to survive in a nuclear age. A grimy pit, a few terraced streets of grit-blackened brick, and in the air a smell of coal...
June 1968: as the manager and men work hard to raise the coal output, with their families hoping for a future, the rumour is closure. Can their efforts avert this end? Is there a future for the village of Craghead?
Clip taken from A Year in the Life: For Craghead, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 5 October, 1969.
You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.
Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive
You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
