The Price of Coal 1 1977

[@alexbeardsley9654]

I’m a 31 year old man. and this reminds me of my grandparents so much. I’d do anything to get those years back. The rant at the snooker table stays with me. The world has gone backwards. It’s worse now than ever.

[@sammy6100]

You’re not wrong mate, I’ve just turned 33. My dad and granddad were both pit men, miss my grandad dearly.

[@jerryatkinson6543]

Great film, almost a documentary at times. To understand the UK you need to see it through the lens of class. In the 70’s we were just learning to be no longer subservient, 50 years later we’re still obsessed with it. Most of these people weren’t acting and the ones that were didn’t have to try very hard. Fabulous!

[@patrickhouston2610]

Nothing has changed I know many pommies and two or three will tell you UK is still the same, only you have more trying to get in with your royal family, and title they clamber for, your class system is very much alive and thriving, it was supposed to change after WW2, no change happened never will, now you have let a nutcase become king, will not eat those biscuits if they haven't been heated up, will not have shoe laces that have not been ironed flat before I use them. This is Charlie chuckle head, bringing in pagen religion into the coronation,, what being a loony does for you, and why his mother tried so hard to keep him off the throne, 10 or 11 percent in breed he is, but mummy knew he is totally bonkers. Nothing has changed, just got worse, your woke politicians ignored your vote to leave, even the public servants took no action on leaving at first, politicians and civil servants had to be forced to accept the vote to lrave, bleeding ridiculous country.

[@georgeparker7838]

I lived in Stocksbridge, north of Shefield when this was released. I worked in Doncaster, teaching NCB's finest at the local tech. I would walk into the classroom and say' Right get yer bloody boots off the desks. Take off your hats and listen' . Graet days, great lads. The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Happy days.

[@jujulionesselsa1416]

How great this is just what i needed. How i admire these wonderful men. My kind of people. Takes me right back to when the pits were flourishing, I'm from mining stock and loved our pit trips to the seaside and the miners welfare.😊

[@ginagina9720]

I remember my dad having sideburns in the 70s and shoulder length hair and flared trousers lol 😂 gosh this film 🍿 takes me back i remember the 70s very well when people worked hard for a living we didn’t have much but we was happy 😃

[@katevann157]

This film had me creased up in parts! Gritty British humour at its finest.....and no 'f' words...

[@albaproductions9602]

We had gems like this on a weekly basis back in the seventies, These plays need to looked after they weren't just written they were nurtured for the wealth of great actors to ply their trade. These writers captured the essence of their local areas and for all to see, Allan Bennett, Willy Russell and Alan Bleasedale writers with a wealth of knowledge of real people and people's lives.

[@kerkiraz]

Well articulated synopsis.I’m doing a Sociology paper on 1970s northern English culture. This film is as more answers than any research paper I’ve read in the library.

[@scabbycatcat4202]

Very well said Alba.

[@THEDONTTELLSHOW]

@@kerkiraz hi, could I read your paper please? I'm working on a documentary about how depictions of working class culture in TV and Film have changed over the years. It's gonna be called "Whatever Happened to Willy Eckerslike?"

[@johnferguson40]

Back in the sixties onward through the seventies more like.

[@grantsutherland7640]

The straight lines for the helipad queston---circle as well? Had me in absolute bits 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@petermcneill80]

2 time watching now very very good , I’m 39 and plan to watch this again with my 17 year old son soon 👍🏻

[@Kementiri]

Better watch it soon before it becomes pay to watch. All this directors film a pay to watch now. What a git.

[@jasonferguson4247]

I am an American who spent 22 years in the Army and the beginning of this reminds me of all of those years. We spent countless man hours and money getting ready for a visit by some high ranking person. Painting rocks and sweeping dirt. Shining shined boots and pressing already starched uniforms for a two minute visit. Also all of the 'Yes Men' strutting around acting like the visit was the most important thing since the discovery of fire. Horse and pony shows is what we called them. I never did see horses or ponies though.

[@michaelharrison3602]

There's a saying:"The Queen probably believes that all hospitals smell of new paint"

[@philthycat1408]

And all boulders were white

[@hangedups2608]

@@michaelharrison3602😂

[@Sol-Cutta]

Thought this was a real documentary until I see Seth armstrong..bloody well made

[@jrisner6535]

Wish there was more TV like this, funny portraits of real life

[@NewRootsHairUK]

I remember watching this way back in 1977. Thanks.

[@Carlysimon99]

Love Ken Loach directs it with so much realism and gets his characters so perfect you can almost smell the coal.

[@pauldunn81]

You've captured the very essence of this play with your words.

[@maccagrabme]

Modern drama isnt a patch on this, where did it go wrong?

[@swampophelia2098]

@@maccagrabme political correctness and liberals dictating what the tv stations can and can’t show

[@THEDONTTELLSHOW]

@@maccagrabme Jimmy McGovern is still doing great work in UK TV

[@Yungrexy]

@@swampophelia2098 It was actually the BBC being pressured by the Tories and media ghouls like Maxwell who were made ucomfortable about social issues and injustices being amplified (sound familiar?). Your lazy assertion is everything that is wrong with political discourse in this country still. You parrot tired tropes that demonise the "liberals" who are infact the ones fightng for equality/parity while the Tories continue to chip away at wages and rights still to this day. Well done, eh.

[@joanfordham1305]

I remember when the Queen came to South Yorkshire about 66 years ago We were forced to wave the flags and cheer but before she came the road sweeper came up to make sure the road was clean .We all waved and cheered mightily whilst the men in the road sweeper acknowledged us with far more grace charm and good humour than did any of the royal family.If you point out the Royals have to do it so frequently I would point to the saying of an old miner “Well,I just wish I ·ad thy job an Í wish thee ·ad mine !”

[@edwinturner1149]

same as at work, the m.d is visiting,let’s do some bull-then he comes,nods politely,and f s s off🤒

[@grantsutherland7640]

Fucking brilliant

[@Yungrexy]

"I've just been to hairdressers!" "Were they shut?" 🤣🤣🤣 proper cracked me up that, love it. Also, just realised that the fella in the cardigan was Seth Armstrong in Emmerdale Farm.

[@hangedups2608]

😂😂

[@matskieden511]

Absolutely brilliant video. The navigation was very easy to follow. Thank you and take care.

[@darrinmcneill534]

I couldn’t be more proud and thankful to these men the miners they risked their lives daily to heat and power the our homes buy mining coal ❤

[@Andy-x3e4z]

Bollocks,its because they were thick as mince and couldn’t learn anything at school.or couldn’t be bothered to.

[@sukitten1]

A cleverly written and extremely humourous glance into attitudes and the norms of the working classes from the 1970's.

[@elkiemart4132]

Loved this! The scene where the boss is going back and forwards on that cart made me howl

[@patrickcrowther9195]

That was absolutely superb.

[@lynndrury1]

Best thing I've seen for ages. Loved it

[@linzisouthernwood482]

Prince charles once came to our local train station in yorkshire, our family owned the pub next to it and there were armed police officers in my bedroom . My mother made me go to bloody school 😂😂😂

[@84sblack]

Love Yorkshire, great dialect. Thanks.

[@stewartsanders8196]

84sblack I'm from hull so i understand every word ---"""---

[@geoffupton]

im a brummie and it was like... huh?! ohhh i get it! (understood every word! lol)

[@carolinebarnes6832]

I'm from lancashire so it was lovely to hear pure Yorkshire spoken, loved every minute of it, thanks.

[@linzisouthernwood482]

I'm from yourkshire (near Leeds) it's the best accent EVER 😊

[@hangedups2608]

@@stewartsanders8196HULL AINT NOWHERE NEAR BARNSLEY AND SHEFF PAL

[@mkfloyd9131]

Special work done by special people, never forget the miners, never............

[@revol148]

@mk floyd You're clearly too young to remember the public sector chaos between 1974-78 orchestrated under the Labour governments social contract - the miners were the worst of the lot.

[@mkfloyd9131]

@@revol148 Nothing to do with bringing down the heath government then, come on pull the other one...

[@revol148]

@@mkfloyd9131 the miners have a lot to answer to - if they along with other public sector workers (teachers,steel workers,ship builders) had some sort of unity and even understanding with the Wilson then Callaghan administrations then the Tories would never have got in back in 1979.

[@pathfinder1962]

And not forgetting that the miners were the back bone of British industry. They proved that in the 1972\74 strikes. My Dad worked for almost 40 years down the mines and I can tell you he worked his fingers to the bone and yet to Thatcher the Miners were just dirt.

[@mkfloyd9131]

@@revol148 You seem conflicted, pick a side...

[@jujulionesselsa1416]

Absolutely magical.

[@martinwilliamrandall]

Nearly died of laughter when the blokes wig flew off!

[@martinwilliamrandall]

MsVanorak I know they probably never will but they should repeat these on BBC 2our BBC 4, they are so poinent

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

😂😂

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

So glad I found this, Seth outta emmerdale and the milkman outta kes haha, Brilliant , thanks 😂

[@roberthigginson2363]

What a relaxing scene , puffing on His pipe . cutting the true English flowers Roses red or white ! Interest in his family and a feeling of belonging , and today , 2018 we are falling out with each other , and today , even with europe our biggest market place , excellent cultural entertainment , is Rachell welsh really a man ? Ken Loach & Barry Hines , HATS OFF !

[@mlgs26]

Robert Higginson Europe our biggest market place . It was Europe that ruined this country and our community's .

[@jackkruese4258]

@@mlgs26 Rubbish we re the sick man of Europe back then. The EU safeguarded the UK economy for nearly 50 years.

[@trexH66]

Wonderful program that doesn't shy away from real human issues unlike a lot of vacuous programs you see today, thanks for the upload :-)

[@rmanager2]

bloody great film....brings back memories of times spent at north gawber pit with grandad....

[@chriswaring5565]

CAN REMEMBER GAWBER PIT IN BARNSLEY ON HUDDERSFIELD ROWED WHEN WE WENT TO VISIT MY GRANDMA WARING I ALLUS USE TO LOOK TO SEE IF WHEEL ON HEADGEAR WAS GOING RAAND ANYONE DARN SAATH READS THIS THEY WEYNT UNDERSTAND WHAT I WROTE

[@pauloliver6813]

Priceless. What a gem. Couldn't stop laughing from 23.30 to 25.00

[@vanessahawarden9028]

Just brilliant; I adored it!

[@thefrecklepuny]

Great drama! Must have passed me by completely. Shows the utter absurdity and folly of monarchy! It also demonstrates how reasonably well meaning and intelligent men and women can have their senses and priorities warped by monarchy.

[@alicehudson8079]

I couldn't agree more. I actually want to vomit at the whole business. Think how much money the country would save if the royals stayed home and lived off their own money. They need us, we don't need them.

[@charliepeebles]

alice hudson You are absolutely right. This country would be so much better off without those parasites. They reckon that if the queen was holding a gold ingot (valued at around £30,000) and she dropped it, by the time it hit the ground she'd have got that 30 grand back. What does the queen and the rest of her wretched family do to earn all that money? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We have got 5 million children in this country living in poverty and millions more hard working people in full time employment who can't make ends meet and the government is giving billions of Pounds a year in civil list hand outs to the monarchy who are already amongst the richest people in the world. I have always believed that as far as the monarchy is concerned, the French had the right idea.

[@kazfleszar5899]

+alice hudson yes and why don't they free up all that land they own and give I to poor that gos for the church too.

[@kazfleszar5899]

+alice hudson what do they do.

[@kazfleszar5899]

+charliepeebles why don't you run for priminster ill vote for you.

[@headron66]

My great grandfather died down Fallin ( polmaise)pit. My granda and dad died of pit related diseases. Great men who died young because they needed to feed their family. Have no time for royalty then or now.

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Even now in 2023 when I am travelling around & people hear my Geordie accent & they say oh where are you from I always say am from the poor north. Don’t blame the people of the north blame the bloody politicians who gave us that name because of the way we are treated compared to southerners. Pip Fallow has a fantastic book to read if you like these dramas. It’s called Dragged up Proper . Fantastic read about growing up in the poor north.👍

[@hangedups2608]

SOME OF THE POOREST AREAS OF UK ARE IN THE SOUTH, LAD. STOP THE NORTH SOUTH WORKING CLASS HATE AND DIRECT IT AT THE TOFFS FROM ALL OVER

[@kevinhowardsalt]

Thanks for uploading - not seen this since it was first broadcast & I was a teenager. Thanks for passing away a very pleasant three hours!!

[@daleskidmore1685]

Enjoyed this very much, thank you for posting. Brought back some memories too.

[@russellnewton6660]

I remember seeing it at the time, they made another one loosely based on the Houghton main disaster if I remember rightly, not sure if it was before or after.Not lived in the area for many a year. Just quality from the writer Barry Hines and the direction of Ken Loach, class.

[@jujulionesselsa1416]

Bobby Knutt bless him.😊

[@Parknest]

I read this play at school. I didn't know back then it was written by Barry Hines (he of Kes fame). I've never seen the TV adaptation of it before. Ken Loach always gets the best out his actors.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Can tell cos the milkman outta kes was the first one I recognized

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain WHO IS IT!!!!..

[@Yungrexy]

@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain I'm sure the woman he gives roses to at the beginning is in the 1984 tv-movie 'Threads' (which Hines also wrote).

[@smcnicoll]

Beautiful.

[@ravenshireful]

TV has gone backwards since.

[@jcbairmaster73]

Rapidly,can you imagine such programmes ever being made today? It is all shit,brainless shit today,fit for nothing,saying nothing,of no value.You are correct.

[@ravenshireful]

"brinless shit" how perfectly explained... I think writers of this calabre wouldn't even get their scripts read today... bloody sad, but chin up friend, you and I've got youtube at least, so we can say goodbye to TV :)

[@booopdooop]

the world has gone backwards since.

[@mqb5151]

Yes indeed I wish we had 3 channels back and I wish they all closed at 1130/12pm. Oh and I wish there was no internet, or mobiles. Oh and I wish we had the 4 day week back. What a world that would be.

[@malcolmclements9254]

The Queen always thought the world smelt of fresh paint.

[@glutinousmaximus]

I imagine the royals in this era thought everywhere they went smelt like new paint...!

[@alicehudson8079]

Prince Charles actually made a comment about 'everything smelling of new paint'.

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Still do as they do exactly the same, clean and paint everywhere before a visit

[@Yungrexy]

Excellent screenwriting filmmaking & acting all round. Thanks for the upload and the memories.

[@johnferguson40]

Thanks for posting this.

[@LarryMcLarnon]

Ken loach, a giant off social conscience film making.

[@carolworthington9099]

RIP Dougie Brown.

[@sonofwallacecoyb4744]

Great educational film

[@nodrog798]

Although it was a great comedy film it was very close to the real thing and I think typical of the time.Nearly wet my pants laughing.Thanks for posting.

[@Numatoy9]

hey up flash how's blackpool may besgt bilko lad from good ole spike

[@THESHOMROM]

MsVanorak I agree. And I felt the futility and sadness. Even in the funny parts my chest felt a heaviness. Now look today with the country so divided. Is Democracy dying? No matter what side you're on the most important thing is for the vote to count for something. This privelege is under attack.

[@arthurbaldwin1804]

I remember seeing this on the television when it was first released. I seem to remember that there was a second part to it when there was an explosion down the pit.

[@spirestrummer1]

These films should be placed on the national curriculum, so that it shows just how evil the gaffers and privelidged are. Men and women treated like shite, by all and sundrae.

[@seansands424]

cant even watch part 2

[@TheChrisrg]

Quality you would expect from the Hines/Loach axis.

[@robbiemcc4355]

Fantastic, memorable ✌

[@hangedups2608]

PLANTING TREE WITH A HAT ON 😂

[@notmarkatall]

Rotfl moment when the helicopters blow the wigs off the heads of the sycophants, brilliant.

[@malcolmclements9254]

This was the golden years for miners. A fully trained face worker (most dangerous job) was earning up to £200 per week, more with overtime. Other miners between £120 and £170. A car worker could get £100 to £160 a week. The average wage was about £35 to £70 a week for 40 hours depending on the work. There was no minimum wage. Anything over 40 hours was time and a half. Bank holidays or Saturdays were double time, Xmas day and New year's eve were treble time.

[@jackwatsonepic626]

I'm here " because I was watching Bobby knutt on benidorm as Eddie Dawson

[@suesmith4366]

Brilliant 👍🏻😎

[@Yungrexy]

Shades of Brian Potter & Keith Lard in that gaffer. Wonder if Peter Kay drew a little inspiration from this?

[@RobertLocksley385]

I see Rita May there, who went on to appear in another classic Hines television production in 1984, "Threads".

[@karlbensley58]

why look up to people who look down on us :) official visit ,lol

[@The4thDensity]

Brilliant, I'm going to use that phrase Frank if you don't mind.

[@scoobysienna]

gutted watched 2nd part and no ending.just had to buy the boxset

[@TimothyWorel]

2:36 box marked WAGE PACKETS on window sill. 2:50 it's gone.

[@railfangig6699]

This film so captures the era perfectly when heavy industries played a major part in the countries economy, now just a memory as we’re doomed to work in safer but more boring occupations run by bits of kids with degrees with little work experience .

[@Yungrexy]

Arguing about spending lavish amounts on Charlie Windsor while workers are being told to tighten their belts... Unionists fighting for a fair wage being labelled as *"Communists",* Oh, how things have changed, eh.

[@georgel74]

The room full of smoke😂

[@Patricia-ic4ee]

Look at the bell bottoms.priceless,,ha

[@andrewfletcher3296]

RIP bobby knutt

[@malcolmclements9254]

5809, It's a Knockout is on TV with Stuart Hall and Eddy Waring so that means this was filmed on a Tuesday. There was hardly anything worth watching on Tuesday evenings. This was actually filmed in 76 the hot summer.

[@williamfisher5749]

Brilliant

[@derekdye1930]

They spake propper rate in Yorkshire tha nors.

[@francesriddiough8818]

I hope Prince Charles saw this.

[@seansands424]

And thats is how our own country treets it,s own peaple eye opener it will shock you

[@revol148]

@sean sands the person who taught you written English should be ashamed of themselves

[@chriswaring5565]

AYE I AGREE WITH T,OLD LAD AT 41:49 THEY ARE A LOAD OF PARSITES

[@davelowe1977]

9:30 - legendary northern banter!

[@malkaringel7864]

Yes ....the two sides of the coin. Politics n royalty. Working man versus higher class? Statement 🎥?

[@pauloliver6813]

35.20 Walter...what a hero- "Well I want a new set, these are loose...I sound like a bloody trotting pony when I've got the buggers in..." 13 + 41 would have made him 54...(I wonder?) It's possible! But it might have equally have been done for effect. Anyone know?

[@jackwatsonepic626]

You're not the Paul Oliver from Leeds are you

[@Kimdino1]

You gotta laugh at the sickophants, because it's better than crying at what they're doing to us.

[@zeddeka]

Sickophant? What's that, a poorly elephant? Did you mean sycophant?

[@Kimdino1]

@@zeddeka I knew exactly what I was writing, the spelling is deliberate ;)

[@viktorviktor3624]

watching this film now in 2023, personally for me being a soviet boy in 1977 it was quite surprisingly to behold the moment when the father is beating the tv to get the propper picture . now i understand that all the electronic things were the same garbage like in our former communist world because I have been doing the same beating my tv too in order to receive more or less propper picture . and naturally this film shows not what is the prise of coal it shows what is the prise of human`s life and how these masters of life treat people . for the purpose of comparisone for me as a former soviet young man who knows what is life in soviet system and life during this modern time and especially in ukraine I would say no good word about this . the prise of coal (life) in this modern time became even lower then 50 years ago no matter what system - soviet or capitalist . in my opinion time shows that people all arround the world started to plunge themselves in slavery we are now like indentured people from england in 1700 in usa but without expiring date .

[@portorico6593]

Prince charles was visiting a mine a few years ago when a guy swore, sorry your highness he said i forgot i'm not supposed to swear in front of you, who the fuck told you that the prince said lol

[@Sol-Cutta]

Now I see why it's so realistic...bloody hell written by Barry (threads)Hines and ken (everything British thats great TV) loach...bloody hell talk about hard hitters...

[@malkaringel7864]

Not 1 comment as to the 🎥 itself?!? I am Canadian.....as if that matters. Interesting film. A bit on the slow side, but I guess it has relevance.

[@jerryatkinson6543]

Good point, however to understand the UK you need to see everything through the lens of class, we’re secretly obsessed with it.

[@hangedups2608]

@@jerryatkinson6543NOT SECRETLY

[@naylorthejailor]

Seth Armstrong int pit!

[@mickigoe]

Yeah , bad luck alright that Cadeby Main disaster happening that day. Took a bit of the gloss off the royal visit. Ffs !!!

[@gerrynicol3951]

The same guy with pipe was in benidorm.he just passed away.looks so young.also the brother of Iva Tinsley is in prog Doug something or other. 4 years ago.

[@carolineg1872]

He was Brian Tilsey's garage boss in Corrie.

[@calebjones1st]

True British

[@Richard-zt2zo]

I may just be an ignorant southerner (Essex) but are some of these actors Yorkshire accent fake?

[@mickpearson6184]

No, that's a proper South Yorkshire accent. Like the film Kes

[@hangedups2608]

@@mickpearson6184KES WAS HULL

[@greenfingersgardener822]

ave they seen our Judd

[@headida]

The truth is the English have been down trodden and under the heel since 1066. Only when they throw of the jack boot of the establishment will there be any self respect for the masses in this country. Whilst the Prime Minister is an old Etonian with an Oxbridge education you will always be working class.

[@mkfloyd9131]

Do not forget a member of the Bullingdon dining club also the most prestigious club at university. Bojo a member as well............

[@frazzleface753]

You have to make your own way. Once the masses rise up, an 'establishment' or elite will form again in short order. History shows us this time and time again, with countless millions of lives lost in the process, and for what? Individualism and respect for the individual is the answer, not class warfare or revolution. Class warfare is a distraction while the most powerful loot and pillage.

[@stewartsanders8196]

headida I'm OK I've got gas heating its brilliant ---"""---- Maggie did the damage

[@IRAUDR]

headida Lola they are their own establishment

[@IRAUDR]

Men look liked women

[@happyuk06]

What Yorkshire accent is this, with frequent use of "thee"? Is it Barnsley?

[@jrisner6535]

South Yorkshire

[@malcolmclements9254]

3434, he reminds of John Le Mesuria.

[@emmasimms5395]

Imagine Men behaving like that today!.

[@Blueswanreborns]

how long after his were pits closed down

[@hangedups2608]

FEW MORE YEARS

[@peckerdecker]

Where is *part 2* ? Called *Back to Reality* . Thank you

[@DustyCustard]

How authentic are the accents/dialect in this? Can true Yorkshire people tell who's 'putting it on'? Just curious.

[@thefrecklepuny]

Hard to say. I'm from Leeds where a different dialect will be spoken compared to someone from Sheffield or Doncaster.

[@phillipsouthwick1445]

ken loach as a rule will always use correct local dialects, for credible authenticity, try watching his interview with cillian murphy broadcasted last night

[@EdwardAveyard]

+DustyCustard This was very authentic in 1977, but most people don't speak like this any more. The only people who I know who still speak like this are in their 80s.

[@yasashii89]

+Edward Aveyard lol I'm 25 and I speak like this... :P

[@kazfleszar5899]

+Edward Aveyard I was thinking same thing.

[@malcolmclements9254]

11.20 "safeguarding mining industry for two million years" more like ten years.

[@ianshaw6922]

Am from Barnsley and im 50 and growing up as a kid in 70s & 80s in our village everything was coal coal coal now Royston Pit gone not same village from shops to Working Men's clubs all closing now get coal from foreign lands even though we have our own just to keep countries flourishing but our own. We England could be self sufficient if we really tried

[@TheKonga88]

I dropped a gollywog into a mineshaft in 1982 and I wonder if it's still in there.😃😄😄😄

[@alanthompson4291]

It bre,d there is millions of them now

[@stewartsanders8196]

Norman Bates thank god you never said black bastards pmsl ---"""---

[@londonlady227]

I bet it's in a right jam.

[@TheKonga88]

@@alanthompson4291 😂😂😂😂

[@TheKonga88]

@@londonlady227 😹😂😂😂😂