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  1. FIELDS OF COAL

    Date released
    Jun 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345961
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: open-cast mining summarised from start to restoration of land in Northumbria NCB Commentary - Bigger and faster machines are the keys to the striking increases in production which have been...

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  2. WAGON WHEELS

    Date released
    Mar 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345819
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Wagon handling at Dalkeith Coal Preparation plant NCB Commentary - At Dalkeith in Scotland is a big new coal washery, where ordinary rail wagons loaded with coal get a streamlined treatment....

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  3. EAST MIDLANDS LOOKS WEST

    Date released
    Jul 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346177
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the reconstruction of Cadley Hill Colliery on the western fringe of the East Midlands coalfield to work reserves totalling some 60 million tons NCB Commentary - The old pit at Cadley Hill,...

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  4. FESTIVAL OF LABOUR

    Date released
    Dec 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346191
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: At this festival held in Battersea Park there was a working model of a coal mine, the Cresswell Colliery Band and on the athletics side Dorothy Hyman and Arthur Rowe. NCB Commentary - This...

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  5. FRED’S PITCH

    Date released
    Oct 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346187
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the function of coal in the manufacture of carpets at a factory at Brighouse, Yorkshire. NCB Commentary - Near this spot, Robin Hood died. His bows were made from a tree in nearby Hartshead...

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  6. BALLETOMINES

    Date released
    Aug 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345840
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: miners dancing ballet. Miners from the West Riding Colliery give performance of Delibes’ "Coppelia" for charity at Normanton Central Town Club. NCB Commentary - Many times in the past have...

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  7. Nottinghamshire - Coal Grown

    Date released
    Apr 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346407
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: African violets, popular house plants, are literally reared on coal NCB Commentary - This house at Lambley is the home of Mr. G. J. Wicks. Mr. Wicks has the distinction of being Britain’s...

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  8. ROYAL VISIT

    Date released
    May 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345742
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the Duke of Edinburgh visits pits near Manchester, including Mosley Common and Astley Green. NCB Commentary - The little town of Tyldesley turned out in force early in April to welcome the...

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  9. SANDS OF DEE

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345865
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: point of Ayr reconstruction NCB Commentary - Point of Ayr Colliery, most northerly in Wales, comes into the headlines as its million pound reconstruction scheme nears completion. From this...

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  10. TIN MINE

    Date released
    Nov 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345978
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: a modern tin mine in Cornwall. Underground workings and ore-dressing plant NCB Commentary - This is Land’s End. Near here the Phoenicians are supposed to have landed. Over two thousand years...

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