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  1. A SEAT ON A5

    Date released
    Dec 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345809
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: retired miners at Dordon, Staffordshire - how they spend their day. NCB Commentary - It’s a quiet autumn morning in the village of Dordon. Down on the corner, traffic on the busy A5 trunk...

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  2. Sneyd Old-timers

    Date released
    Mar 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    350888
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NCB Commentary - Back at Sneyd Colliery, the Welfare Hall is the scene of a ceremony honouring other miners who have not been forgotten. 50 years in the pits is a long working life by any standard....

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  3. NEW YEAR HONOURS

    Date released
    Feb 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345773
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: three of the mining people selected for New Year Honours - Alan Hill Area general manager at Bestwood, Nottinghamshire, Arthur Wright of Worksop and Burt Day from Haunchwood Colliery, West...

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  4. LIDICE LIVES

    Date released
    Oct 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346224
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the rebirth of the old mining village of Lidice, in Czechoslovakia, decimated by the Germans on 10th June 1942. NCB Commentary - Slater: As you drive North-west from Prague towards the Kladno...

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  5. PAPER WORK

    Date released
    Sep 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345973
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: printing and photographic departments at the NCB headquarters NCB Commentary - At London’s Hobart House, headquarters of the National Coal Board, there’s more than meets the eye. Deep in...

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  6. 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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  7. British Empire’s New Waterway

    Date released
    May 1936
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    352146
    Story no
    1 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: Once again the 30-year-old spectre of the St. Lawrence Seaway threatens New Orleans’ 50-mile waterfront. Word comes that the new Congress will reconsider the treaty with Canada,...

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