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  1. GUESS WHAT?

    Date released
    Aug 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345968
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 96-year-old winding engine NCB Commentary - What is it? ... that’s the question. A merry ground? A stirring machine perhaps? - No, it’s not either of them. Maybe this will give you a clue -...

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  2. OLD HANDS

    Date released
    Feb 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345948
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The story of an old winding engine and of the two men who operate it. NCB Commentary - Once again near St. Helens stands Lea Green Colliery. On shift comes Jack Howard, 66 years old, to take...

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  3. EMERGENCY WINDER

    Date released
    Jan 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345899
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Durham mobile diesel emergency winding gear at Wheatley Hill Colliery. NCB Commentary - In Britain, with an increasing number of collieries switching over to Electric winding, new emergency...

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  4. MODEL MAN

    Date released
    Dec 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345983
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: retired Northumbrian stoker John Bennett with the working model colliery he has built NCB Commentary - Stoker John Bennett has a shed at the bottom of his garden. Now retired, after 18 years...

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  5. Royal Visit to Colliery

    Date released
    31 Aug 1975
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2413
    NoS ID
    030705
    Story no
    1 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Visit to Colliery. DESCRIPTION: HM The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh - visited the coalface of Silverwood Colliery. Her Majesty unveiled a plaque to commemorate the...

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  6. 119 NOT OUT

    Date released
    Jan 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345858
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: an old steam engine at work at Warden Law colliery. NCB Commentary - Still in the county of Durham, across the high moorland country inland from Sunderland’s busy port, 62-year-old Alfred...

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  7. HELEN

    Date released
    Mar 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346240
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The progress of Helen Kent, a Northumberland miner’s daughter, studying to be an engineer. NCB Commentary - James Kent has been a winding man for more than thirty years. His job is a...

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  8. 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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  9. TEN YEARS ON: WINDING

    Date released
    Aug 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345926
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: changes in winding techniques over the past ten years. NCB Commentary - However much coal is won underground it all has to find its way to the surface up a shaft out of the mine. What changes...

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  10. DOWNFALL

    Date released
    May 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346245
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The fall of Oakdale’s redundant smoke stacks as this South Wales pit changes from steam-winding to an automatic electric winder. NCB Commentary - For almost 40 years the smoke of the steam...

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