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  1. BIRD IN HAND

    Date released
    Feb 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345734
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: cage bird show at Olympia, with the N.C.B. exhibiting pit canaries. Includes examples of pit canaries and how they are revived. NCB Commentary - Here’s a fine sight, enough to make a...

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  2. IDEAS MAN

    Date released
    Apr 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345826
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Gerald Russon from Thoresby Colliery demonstrates two of his inventions for safety in mines. The first is the face conveyor signalling and motor control device which allows the conveyor to be...

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  3. BOWHILL ON TOP

    Date released
    Apr 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345825
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Bowhill Colliery’s reorganistion station. Continues the story of Bowhill Colliery, Fife, modernisation (as featured in Mining Review 7th Year No 3). Looks at the changes on the surface...

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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. FORGING THE LINK

    Date released
    Dec 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345940
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Manufacture and testing of colliery chains. NCB Commentary - At any time of the day or night in Britain’s pits men and materials are riding the cages speedily and safely. To these men the...

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  6. 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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  7. Art in Industry

    Date released
    Jul 1981
    Series name
    Review 34th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346811
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB Summary - The Artist in Industry Fellowship Scheme gives a painter the opportunity of working for two months at a Yorkshire Colliery. NCB synopsis: LS man (artist Paul Butler) walking L-R past hedge in...

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  8. 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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  9. DUTCH BOFFINs

    Date released
    Jun 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346209
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the Dutch State Mines, like Britain, have a mining research establishment. NCB Commentary - 30 years ago the Dutch State Mines founded their own Mining Research Establishment - to study...

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  10. EVERY NIGHT

    Date released
    Nov 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345722
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: shaft maintenance at night at Kirkby Colliery (East Midlands). NCB Commentary - Whenever miners come off shift and coal winding stops for the day, a very special crew takes over - the men...

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