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  1. SHAFT STUDY

    Date released
    May 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346045
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: work study survey of shaft operations. Method Study Department sets out to make the safest and most effective use of the industry’s resources. NCB Commentary - The stop-watch comes into its...

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  2. WIGAN SKIPS

    Date released
    Apr 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345867
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: skip winding at Bold colliery. NCB Commentary - In Wigan, Area General Manager Brass has long held a faith in skipwinding, the quick way of raising his tonnages to the surface. Colliery...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. FOuR YEARS ON

    Date released
    Apr 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345910
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: progress at the new Kinneil Colliery, Scotland NCB Commentary - Around Bo’ness, on the brink of the Firth of Forth, the land covers shallow seams of coal which have been exhausted, by many...

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  6. Northumberland - YOUNG ENTERPRISE

    Date released
    Apr 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346370
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Ashington and Beglinton youngsters devote their weekends to clearing Embleton beach, Northumberland, of war debris. NCB Commentary - Ashington - a big hearted colliery with a civic minded...

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  7. Yorkshire: SAFETY FAST

    Date released
    May 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345827
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the Seckar man-riding invention at Haig Drift mine, Yorkshire. Show the man-riding in operation which saves miners a 50 minute walk. NCB Commentary - Under this pleasant Yorkshire countryside...

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  8. MARIETTA ON TRIAL

    Date released
    Sep 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345801
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: American Marietta miner at work driving roadway through stone at Wellesley Colliery, Scotland. NCB Commentary - At Wellesley Colliery, Scotland, the Mighty Marietta is tearing its way forward...

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  9. Kirkstall Forge

    Date released
    2 Nov 1970
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2161
    NoS ID
    028553
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Kirkstall Forge Colour. DESCRIPTION: Cistercian monks founded Kirkstall Abbey in the twelfth century. Their primitive mining and smelting of Iron from the rich Yorkshire deposits was...

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  10. A CAR IS BORN

    Date released
    Oct 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346263
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the use of coal in the car manufacturing industry. NCB Commentary - Journeys end ... ... Over 200,000-tons of coal a year flow into the works of one of Britain’s key industries. Coal for...

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