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  1. Lancashire & Denbigshire - THE NORTH WEST

    Date released
    Feb 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346363
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Transport in the Lancashire coalfield. NCB Commentary - Lancashire’s industrial towns and villages lie mostly tuckes away in valleys between high hill ridges. It’s difficult country to get...

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  2. SELF RESCUERS

    Date released
    Mar 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346201
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: small filtering masks known as self-rescuers are being used at selected pits to combat carbon monoxide fumes. NCB Commentary - Despite all our precautions, stringent safety regulations and...

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  3. MIGHTY MARIETTA

    Date released
    Mar 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345779
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a new American mining machine installed at Wellesley Colliery, Scotland. NCB Commentary - From the old to the new. On the surface at Wellesley Colliery, Fife, a 29 1/2 ton monster waits to be...

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  4. The Lunatic Fringe

    Date released
    Apr 1936
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    352512
    Story no
    3 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: Barnstorming breathlessly across America to-day are the self-appointed Messiahs of rabid political minorities - the so-called "lunatic fringe". Hardly missed is the man who might...

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  5. WET HEADING

    Date released
    Aug 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345924
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a Joy Continuous miner in wet conditions at Trewlewis colliery NCB Commentary - In Glamorgans Bargoed valley, in the shadow of Taff Merthyr Colliery, stands the new Trelewis Drift Mine....

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  6. Kent - Sea Change

    Date released
    Mar 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346321
    Story no
    1 / 3

    NoS synopsis: Kent miners who go to sea to fish at Deal NCB Commentary - The Straits of Dover - one of the world’s busiest seaways. The town of Deal on Kent’s south east shore, looks out over the...

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  7. NO SMOKING

    Date released
    Mar 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346239
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The production of a new smokeless fuel by the NCB, hexagonal in shape, which burns with a bright flame - Homefire. NCB Commentary - In the Warwickshire countryside, the backroom boys have come...

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  8. Ten YEARS ON: ROOF CONTROL

    Date released
    Jun 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345917
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: changes in the technique of roof support systems over the past ten years NCB Commentary - No branch of mining is more important than roof control underground. The pit is always slive with...

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  9. TREPANNER

    Date released
    Feb 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345946
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Britain’s newest power loading machine for longwall faces in operation in Yorkshire NCB Commentary - Two months ago in Mining Review at Ormonde Colliery in Derbyshire we saw noted industrial...

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  10. GLOSTER GETTER

    Date released
    May 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345872
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the Gloster Getter Cutter loader, Cresswell NCB Commentary - There’ll always be a need for men who can use a shovel in the mines but mechanisation at the coalface has been making giant...

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