Written by Bill Naughton
Produced hy Douglas Cleverdon
It is a warm summer morning in a Lancashire town on the feast of Corpus Christi 1921. The coal strike is on and six boys set out on a journey to the slag heap to pick coals for the empty grates in their homes and to earn a bit of cash. Mrs. Duckworth , Herbert Duckworth (Violet Carson , Alan Sykes ); Mrs. Taylor , Jimmy Tavlor (Joyce Latham ,
Norman Hayes ); Michael M'Cloud , Mrs. M Cloud , Mr. M'Cloud (Raymond Filzpatrtck , Mary O'Farrell , David Blake Kelly ): Ben Shilllton
, Mrs. Shilliton (Ian Piper ,
Mildred Dyson ): Spadger Chadwick (Peter Harvey );
Mrs. Haddock , Ernie Haddock (Barbara Greenhalgh , Terry Dean ); Miss Twining (Vida Paterson )
Other parts plaved by: John Sharp , Sian Davies , Frank Partington , Jeremy Bradbury -, Lizbeth Stewart , Jack Howarth , Fred Fairclough , Kevin White , and boys of St. Joseph's School, Salford.