Spalding in Lincolnshire boasts eight million tulips in glorious array, while Eton boys go down a pit in Ayrshire.

Tulip Time at Spalding's Festival of Flowers blooms spectacularly - albeit in black and white - as a result of coal-heated greenhouses. Also in this issue of the mining industry cinemagazine, boys from Eton College stay with local mining families in Cumnock and enjoy a trip underground at Barony Colliery. They emerge "dirty, happy and wiser", having seen first-hand how the nation's coal is won.

Tulip Time - the annual Festival of Flowers at Spalding in Lincolnshire.
The flower-growing industry uses a lot of coal for greenhouse heating. The Festival of Flowers features the East Midlands Queen of Coal, Pamela Hands, on the NCB float (slogan 'Everything flourishes on coal'), which is decorated with 23,000 tulips. The parade includes floats decorated with a total of 8 million tulips and there's also a brief appearance on screen of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

Visit to Ayr - boys from Eton College visit the Scottish Coalfields.