CARE home residents in Barnsley have created a music video for Children in Need – showcasing the area’s industrial heritage.
Residents and staff from Deangate Care Home, Towngate, Mapplewell, dressed as miners and created a North Gawber colliery coal pit backdrop for their contribution to the video.
They sang along and performed chair aerobics to 1937 classic “The Lambeth Walk” as one of nine care homes across Barnsley that took part.
Relatives of those living at Deangate Care Home also supported the project, including Mark and Lynne Lodge, son and daughter of resident Hilda Lodge, 92, and Susan Tattersall, daughter of Alice Pickering, 89.
They were filmed performing before it was edited together into a video alongside footage from other Barnsley care homes, with “Bring me Sunshine” playing over the images.
The project was organised by the Barnsley Healthcare Federation, Barnsley Older People Physical Activity Alliance and Love to Move.
Elderly residents spent weeks practising their armchair aerobics, learning the routine, making the coal pit backdrop, and sourcing their costumes before filming began.