An amateur promotional produced by Roland Lax Miller of pupils from Heathfield Senior High School in Gateshead visiting Dukeshouse Wood Camp School near Hexham in November 1971. While there the pupils take part in a forestry project at Slaley Forest where they watch a local forester fell a tree and a game keeper shot and gut a deer. On another day, the pupils travel by bus to Nenthead in Cumbria and Killhope Crushing Mill in Upper Weardale to learn about the areas lead mining history. On a...

An amateur promotional produced by Roland Lax Miller of pupils from Heathfield Senior High School in Gateshead visiting Dukeshouse Wood Camp School near Hexham in November 1971. While there the pupils take part in a forestry project at Slaley Forest where they watch a local forester fell a tree and a game keeper shot and gut a deer. On another day, the pupils travel by bus to Nenthead in Cumbria and Killhope Crushing Mill in Upper Weardale to learn about the areas lead mining history. On a third day the pupils go hiking along Hadrian’s Wall and on their last night a ceilidh is arranged with pupils taking part in various types of traditional and modern dancing. Credit: Band Three Presents A series of black and white photograph showing a group or groups of young people. Title: The Dukehouse Job A group of teenagers stands along a country road beside a wooded area. A sign for the village of Slaley and the group walking along a track. Several members of the group take turns holding a rifle, a brief phantom car ride passing some of the group who stare at the camera. In woodland area the group watch a man fell a conifer tree. A man shots the rifle, he walks over and picks up the carcass of a dead deer. The group walks deeper into the conifer woods and watches as the man guts and begins to skin the animal. Nearby a plantation of conifer tree saplings. The group walk across snow covered moorland and cross a ford. On board a bus they sit or stand around chatting. A young man walks along a snowy country road, back on the bus a boy sleeping. A phantom bus journey passing snow covered fields and moorland changes to show a farm in a valley, the surrounding hillsides white with snow. A road sign at a junction, an arrow pointing towards Allendale. The group get off the bus, two signs on a wall read ‘Lad Company Work Men & Reading Room’ and ‘Neathhead Over 60 Rest Room’. Members of the group walk around the village looking at several houses and buildings. They have a snowball fight in a field. They walk towards a smelting chimney, one of them falls over and some of the others try to rub snow in his face. They look around the entrance to an old drift mine before continuing their hike across the snowy landscape arriving at Killhope Crushing Mill with its waterwheel. They play around in a nearby stream and look around the building and wheel. Views of the surrounding snowy rural landscape are followed by the group walking across a field passing a herd of cattle, one boy chases after two of them. The group climb a hillside and walk along a narrow ridge. At Crag Lough the remains of Hadrian’s Wall, a brief view of a boy in a helmet climbing atop the Crag using ropes. Inside a wooden building boys and girls dance slowly together around the room, two boys play mouth organs. More dancing featuring various styles of folk, traditional and contemporary some accompanied by a man playing a set of bagpipes ends the film. End title: The end