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  1. BIG SHOT

    Date released
    Mar 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346037
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Arthur Rowe, shot put champion, trains for Mining Review. NCB Commentary - Introducing Arthur Rowe, a blacksmith’s striker from North Gawber Colliery. His mates enjoy the show as the 16 pound...

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  2. The North East - OUT OF THE PAST

    Date released
    Jun 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346376
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The Bowes Museum in County Durham, and its collection of local industrial antiquities. NCB Commentary - John Barton is a lamp-room attendant at Eccles Mine in Backworth, Northumberland. Ever...

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  3. RAKE’S PROGRESS

    Date released
    Mar 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346038
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: New German tunnelling machinery brings life to a long disused pit. NCB Commentary - Brynlliw Colliery, abandoned in 1927 as uneconomic, is to live again. Reconstruction going on since 1954 is...

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  4. GEORDIE COMES TO TOWN

    Date released
    Oct 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346062
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Geordie Browne, an 83-year-old ex-miner from Ashington, Northumberland, comes to London for the first time since the turn of the century NCB Commentary - This is London at the turn of the...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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