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  1. A Pit is Reborn: 6. Mosley Common

    Date released
    Feb 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345504
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: large reconstruction at the colliery near Manchester, with surface buildings and underground mine cars

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  2. RECORD PIT

    Date released
    Dec 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346070
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: British shaft-sinking records are shattered at Lancashire’s Parkside Colliery. NCB Commentary - Early this year, shaft sinking was completed at Parkside Colliery, the North Western...

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  3. Lancashire - FIREBIRDS

    Date released
    May 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346331
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Coal Utilization Council living fire girls. NCB Commentary - Taking the unconventional way into Manchester is a bunch of unconventional girls. To give you a clue, most of them are in show...

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  4. AREA PROFILE: ST HELENs AREA

    Date released
    Mar 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345949
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Lancashire coal mines; Colliery developments in the St. Helens area NCB Commentary - The roots of Lancashire’s prosperity go back over a century - when the cotton mills were clicking into...

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  5. NO RETURNING

    Date released
    Jul 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345881
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI Summary - Closure of Long Lane colliery. NCB synopsis: Long Lane Colliery in Lancashire is closed after 60 years of production. Men and tools are transferred to a big new enterprise at Bold Colliery...

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  6. NOT SO DUSTY

    Date released
    May 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346043
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the manufacture of brickettes from small coal, and their sale in Lancashire. NCB Commentary - In some areas, retailing has always been part of the business of the coal producers themselves. In...

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  7. TOUCHE

    Date released
    Jul 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346050
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: students at Wigan mining and technical college practise fencing and gymnastics in their spare time. NCB Commentary - Trevor Prebble and Sean O’Roirdan are coal board apprentices and students...

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  8. AT HOME

    Date released
    Aug 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345837
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Houses built for miners in Dordon, Midlands NCB Commentary - The Coal Board’s programme calls for twenty-thousand new houses for miners for miners throughout the country. In the West Midlands...

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  9. DEEP WATERS

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345866
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Underground canals draining Lancashire pits. NCB Commentary - There’s no more coal coming out of Ellesmere Pit, near Manchester. To-day Ellesmere is a pumping station. 200 years ago the...

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  10. YORKSHIRE DOUBLE

    Date released
    Sep 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346220
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: trained First Aid Teams from mines all over the country compete in the National First Aid Competition held at Blackpool (889ft). NCB Commentary - Daw Mill may not be on the sea - but this...

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