The seventh and final camera roll filmed by Trade Films during the 1984 Miners Rally that follows an unidentified Durham County Councillor as he delivers food parcels collected from Durham Racecourse in the Wheatley Hill are in the county. As he drives south towards Wheatley Hill and Thornley he talks about the work he does delivering parcels and raising funds to help miners’ families. He explains why collieries or pit should remain open even if they are not profitable. In the Wheatley Hill...

The seventh and final camera roll filmed by Trade Films during the 1984 Miners Rally that follows an unidentified Durham County Councillor as he delivers food parcels collected from Durham Racecourse in the Wheatley Hill are in the county. As he drives south towards Wheatley Hill and Thornley he talks about the work he does delivering parcels and raising funds to help miners’ families. He explains why collieries or pit should remain open even if they are not profitable. In the Wheatley Hill area, he deliveries a number of food parcels to grateful miners and their families before taking the film crew of Wheatley Hill itself and the surrounding area including the location of the village’s former pit Thornley Colliery. At the driving wheel of his Austin Metro car, Durham County Councillor Ron (?) provides details on the food parcel delivery service his runs and of the packages he just collected from Durham Racecourse and the Durham Miners Rally. He provides details of who often and how much he delivers each week and the growing need for more deliveries as the strike continues. He explains he is doing this to help the economy. He doesn’t see unprofitable pits as being uneconomical as they support the local economy and thus would cost more to close and put people on the dole. The car comes to a stop along a back road passing a former chapel converted into ‘The Anorak Factory’. The journey continues with the councillor pointing out the houses they are heading for in the distance. The car drives along back alley behind a terraced street. He gets out and knocks on the backdoor of one of the houses, those inside make their way to the door. The sequence is repeated, but this time the homeowner comes to the door and out to the car. The councillor sorts through the bags in the boot and asks the man if he would delivery some for his neighbours. He agrees and those bags are laid out on the ground. The man takes his own parcel, and the councillor passes another bag to a woman who come to her back gate to collect, she thanks him. With the parcels delivered the councillor gets back in his car and drives away. The man from the house wonders up the back alley handing out food parcels to his neighbours. Back in the car it travels back the way it had come passing again ‘The Anorak Factory’ and other rows of housing. It passes through Wheatley Hill itself and a row of shops fronts, several of which are boarded up. They pass the old Co-Operative building now boarded up with metal shutters before leaving the village and passing a field which, according to the councillor, was where Thornley Colliery before it was closed in 1970. He comments that while the environment now looks better, there are no employment opportunities for anyone living in the area.