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  1. MILLIONS TO COME

    Date released
    Nov 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345762
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS Summary - the opening of Calverton Colliery and a new branch railway. BFI synopsis: The colliery is the first big new colliery to come into production since nationalisation; the new railway (built for...

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  2. FRESH GROUND

    Date released
    Feb 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346033
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: new techniques of using coal ploughs for difficult seams. NCB Commentary - The production of large coal is today’s top priority. Much of it is being won by coal ploughs and by more...

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  3. NAILBREAKER

    Date released
    Apr 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345998
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: night shift deputy Harold Cope keeps fit by weight training NCB Commentary - Night shift deputy Harold Cope has been 31 years in the pits. At 45 he claims to be one of Britain’s fittest and...

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  4. THE BIG WHEEL

    Date released
    Jun 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345875
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Koepe winder, Snowdown Colliery NCB Commentary - At Snowdown colliery in Kent there are the usual two frames but with a difference. The left-hand winder is the traditional British type but the...

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  5. WHITE MINE

    Date released
    Mar 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345906
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the mining of gypsum NCB Commentary - At Robertsbridge in Sussex is an unusual kind of mine. At first glance coal handling on the surface follows the old established pattern, but look more...

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  6. AIRBREAKER

    Date released
    Apr 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345999
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: large coal produced by means of a No.8 nail and air under high compression. NCB Commentary - At Rossington Colliery, Yorkshire, a new installation is blasting down large coal. Here’s a load...

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  7. BABY TOWER

    Date released
    Apr 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346042
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A made-on-the-spot, do-it-yourself sea-boring tower helps in plotting the coal seams underwater in the Firth of Forth. NCB Commentary - The big Kinneal Colliery on the banks of the Firth of...

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  8. SLICER

    Date released
    Mar 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345995
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a new British plough-type cutter loader (the Harwood Slicer) to produce large coal. NCB Commentary - More and more power loaders are going into British pits. Most of these fast moving machines...

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  9. Yorkshire - NEW HEADQUARTERS

    Date released
    Dec 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346354
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Part of the Board’s new Headquarters at Coal House, Doncaster, into which some of the Coal Board’s staff are moving. NCB Commentary - This is Brodsworth Colliery, one of the 75 long-life...

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  10. Flying Scotsman

    Date released
    Mar 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346401
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: The Flying Scotsman, now privately owned, on a run from Grimsby to London NCB Commentary - Back in the 1930s - as it still does today - a train left Kings Cross in London every morning for...

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