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  1. National Story - Pillars of Strength

    Date released
    Dec 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346312
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: powered supports underground give new safety NCB Commentary - These are pillars of strenth indeed. They are called "powered supports", and thousands of them help keep up the roof in the...

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  2. A TIME TO DIVE

    Date released
    Oct 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346020
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: An international diving festival at Dawdon. NCB Commentary - Dawdon Colliery, well known to diving enthusiasts, attracts a big crowd for an International Diving Festival. Dawdon were acting...

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  3. Just Picture It

    Date released
    Jul 1938
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    75
    NoS ID
    349208
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: A new ultra rapid camera with examples of the pouring of quicksilver as seen by an ordinary motion picture camera and by the slow motion camera at the rate of 2,000 individual pictures a second.

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  4. RECORD PIT

    Date released
    Dec 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346070
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: British shaft-sinking records are shattered at Lancashire’s Parkside Colliery. NCB Commentary - Early this year, shaft sinking was completed at Parkside Colliery, the North Western...

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  5. KELLINGLEY

    Date released
    Sep 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346057
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Progress report on the building of what will be the most modern colliery in Europe, situated in Yorkshire NCB Commentary - 2 1/2 thousand feet beneath this land near Pontefract in Yorkshire lie...

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  6. GIANT CLEANER

    Date released
    Sep 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345889
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Manvers Main coal preparation plant, Yorkshire. NCB Commentary - At Yorkshire’s Manvers Main Colliery the biggest coal preparation plant in Europe nears completion. From four surrounding...

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  7. THE WAFFLER

    Date released
    Jul 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345794
    Story no
    2 / 3

    NoS Summary - new coal-cutters NCB Commentary - Here at Brockhill Colliery in Notthinghamshire a new system of mechanised mining and power loading is working, and they don’t have to use any explosives....

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  8. PARKSIDE PAYS OFF

    Date released
    Jun 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346247
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The opening of Parkside Colliery, Lancashire’s first new pit for over 30 years. NCB Commentary - Parkside Colliery started sinking in 1957, the first new pit in Lancashire for over 30-years....

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  9. Scotland - GROUP THERAPY

    Date released
    Feb 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346362
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A Board typist who is a physiotherapist. NCB Commentary - Edinburgh Castle is a symbol of Scotland, and the Scottish musical tradition is still alive in the bagpipes of Pipe Major George...

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  10. Country Durham - LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES

    Date released
    Dec 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346353
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Miner’s daughter Dorothy Wright, who becomes a projectionist in an Auckland cinema. NCB Commentary - Bishop Auckland is in mining country. Here in retirement after a lifetime in the pits...

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