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Ten YEARS ON: ROOF CONTROL

Date released

Jun 1956

Series name

Mining Review 9th Year

Issue no

10

NoS ID

345917

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: changes in the technique of roof support systems over the past ten years NCB Commentary - No branch of mining is more important than roof control underground. The pit is always slive with...

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Fizzy Facts

Date released

Sep 1937

Series name

Ace Cinemagazine

Issue no

36

NoS ID

349010

Story no

3 / 5

NoS synopsis: the roof garden on top of Adelaide House, overlooking the Thames near London Bridge

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Roof Gardens

Series name

Letter From London

Issue no

196

NoS ID

325094

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SUPPORTING PROGRAMME

Date released

Jan 1963

Series name

Mining Review 16th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

346196

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: The Institution of Mining Engineers meet in Manchester. From nearby Bradford Colliery a demonstration of the NCB’s remotely controlled self-advancing roof support system is piped by close...

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MINI-MINES

Date released

Jul 1964

Series name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

346252

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: The model making hobby of coal board employee Percy Webb. NCB Commentary - Would you say that this was an aerial view of a modern pit? No, it’s a scale-model by Percy Webb - who works...

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Phoenix

Date released

Oct 1968

Series name

Mining Review 22nd Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346426

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: Lynemouth Colliery, Northumberland, burned out and flooded just two years ago, has gone back in to production. The biggest undersea mine in Europe, it will soon produce two million tons of coal...

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CUT & CARRY

Date released

Aug 1954

Series name

Mining Review 7th Year

Issue no

12

NoS ID

345839

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: cutting and lifting coal with scraper boxes at Plean Colliery, Scotland NCB Commentary - To keep pace with the rising demand, more and more machines are needed in British mines that will load...

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TREPANNER

Date released

Feb 1957

Series name

Mining Review 10th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

345946

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: Britain’s newest power loading machine for longwall faces in operation in Yorkshire NCB Commentary - Two months ago in Mining Review at Ormonde Colliery in Derbyshire we saw noted industrial...

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Hands - seen by Sid Chaplin

Date released

Apr 1965

Series name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

346283

Story no

3 / 3

NoS synopsis: Hands and the miner. Study of the miner’s work, ending with the modern machines that reduce heavy manual labour. NCB Commentary - The faces of men at the end of their pit shift, the faces of...

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ROOF BOLTING

Date released

Nov 1957

Series name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

345980

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: how this modern technique helps safety underground in mines. NCB Commentary - Above ground the earth looks solid enough, but miners know better. Underground the strata of different rocks are...

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