Hartlepool 1963 Documentary. Waiting for work. PART 2

Hartlepool 1963 Documentary. Waiting for work. PART 2 Tube. Duration : 14.82 Mins.

politically passionate Jack Ashley was one of the first working-class journalist for the BBC. He wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment. The documentary has caused a storm. During production of the film Jack Ashley was at the Grand Hotel, but he felt uncomfortable living in luxury while he interviewed people living in poverty. Instead, learn to know better the community, he moved to a local shop owner, Leo Gillen. Gillen's family were heavily involved in the production of the film. They had asocial conscience and wanted to both poverty and community spirit of Hartlepool are shown. When the documentary was filmed unemployment Hartlepool was one of the highest in the country. Macmillan's government was under pressure to do something, and Jack Ashley believed his film shown nationally in the BBC, have been decisive. Lord Hailsham has become the new Minister for the North. But he wanted to go north into a tourism hotspot change - quickly.Most plans Hailsham finally put aside, but re-connecting with the north-east with the rest of the transport projects multi-million pounds of the country, as Teesside Airport credited. The documentary gave Hartlepool the problems of a national audience. One of the families in the film - the Coomer - said that they had to burn the furniture to keep warm. His revelations about life at subsistence level shocked and divided the city. Some thought that they should washher ...

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