On the face of it, this appears to be footage with no context. The silent UTV report is of two men pointing at a vague sort of hole in the ground and the paperwork merely titles it as “well fall rescue”. However, the newspapers for the date in question reveal a front page story recounting how a ten-year-old girl, Margaret Burns of Lisburn, stumbled through a manhole opening and into a 22-foot shaft in a field near her home. She broke her fall about two thirds of the way down on some rough foot holes and clung on as her friends ran for help.
Margaret was lucky that Captain William Wright, a keen potholer, was visiting a nearby garage when the news broke and he was able to fetch some rope from his car to rescue her. Fortunately, Margaret didn’t sustain any major injuries but was kept in hospital overnight for shock.