Iron Awe: The Accident

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Wednesday, 24 June 2009

The Accident

In 2003 we worked with 20 children from Hummersea Primary School, Loftus and made a film called The Accident, the film was based on one of the stories from the East Cleveland Memories project,about hero "Abe." The film won the Roots and Wings award, the award was presented to us in The Royal Society of Arts building in London by Estelle Morris M.P. Minister for the Arts and by Loyd Grossman.

Photos from the film, premiere and the award.

Heartbreak Hill

In 1932, when the unemployment rate in East Cleveland was over 90%, James and Ruth Pennyman of Ormesby Hall near Middlesbrough gave land to out of work ironstone miners, one of these plots of rough land was close to Boosbeck and was nicknamed Heartbreak Hill. A friend of theirs, Rolf Gardinar, suggested a collective land scheme instead of allotments; similar to the one he had set up in Dorset, they also invited German and Scandinavian students to take part. The miners and students worked together to clear the land and joined together in cultural activities - music, dancing and educational talks, a young Michael Tippett became involved and wrote a balled opera called Robin Hood, this was performed in 1934 in the Boosbeck church hall.