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BFI synopsis: A look at the miner’s safety lamp. NCB Commentary - They used to say "Don’t go down the mine, daddy," but for hundreds of years miners have done just that. In the early years the coal was...
BFI synopsis: the Happy Wanderer pub at Framwellgate, Co Durham, has one of Britain’s finest collections of mining relics. NCB Commentary - Durham miners who visit Framwellgate Moor’s newest pub, The...
BFI Summary - teaching lamp testing station. NCB Commentary - These are bulbs for miners’ cap lamps. Thousands of them are in use at all hours of the day and night in Britain’s collieries, and of the...
BFI synopsis: Lamp bulbs for miners’ cap lamps are tested at a laboratory in Treorchy.
BFI synopsis: magnetic safety lamp locks, Thorne colliery and Stoke Orchard laboratory - the Coal Board research laboratory.
BFI synopsis: barometric alarm for shotfirers at Groesfaen NCB Commentary - At Groesfaen colliery, overlooking the Rhymney valley, shot firer Tom Jones prepares to go on shift. A quick check on how the...
BFI synopsis: the life of a miner in Bolsover paralysed below the waist after an accident. NCB Commentary - This car is being driven by a man who has lost the use of his legs. The clutch, gear lever and...
BFI synopsis: Mining in vertical seams at Gilmerton Colliery. Miners John Ross and John May are seen at work in the vertical seams. NCB Commentary - At Gilmerton Colliery, just outside Edinburgh, the way...
BFI synopsis: blinded miner makes good. NCB Commentary - One dark day 12 years ago, Joe Hare, a South Derbyshire miner, didn’t return his safety lamp to its usual place in the pit lamp-room. Joe, at the...
NoS synopsis: A long-lasting light bulb for underground use NCB Commentary - Like any big industry, the Coal Board uses a great many different things in huge quantities. It save money by buying them...
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