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  1. MECHANIZATION SQUAD

    Date released
    Oct 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345930
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: In the Lothians area a group of Mining Engineers facilitates the introduction of new mechanical mining methods at local collieries. NCB Commentary - Whitehill Colliery is the scene of an...

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  2. HORSE SHIFT

    Date released
    Feb 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346237
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The only miners’ pack of hounds in South Wales, with Ewan MacColl singing a ballad telling the story. NCB Song lyrics - Down in the Dulais Valley there’s a pit called Abercrave, And the...

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  3. ON THE AIR

    Date released
    Jul 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345752
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: aerial ropeway maintenance at Ashington colliery, with walkie-talkie apparatus. NCB Commentary - Ashington, in Northumberland, is a big pit. And where you’ve got a big output of coal, you...

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  4. PROGRESS REPORT: PITHEAD BATHS

    Date released
    May 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346000
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a report on the progress of washing facilities, from the tub by the kitchen fire to modern baths NCB Commentary - To a miner the end of the shift doesn’t mean that he’s finished with coal...

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  5. PROGRESS REPORT

    Date released
    Oct 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345846
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Bevercotes - the new shaft sinking at the pit, five and a half million pound job by British craftsman, first steps in freezing soil was ready mixed cement put in huge buckets called "hoppits a...

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  6. SHORT LEASE

    Date released
    Feb 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345861
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Coal won from Wentworth drift NCB Summary - At Wentworth Drift coal is being got cheaply and quickly until the big new collieries now being sunk are in producion. NCB Commentary - Still in...

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  7. SONGS OF THE COALFIELDS: "The Best Littledoorboy"

    Date released
    May 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345959
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a mining song from South Wales. NCB Commentary - A nineteenth century ballad from the Welsh valleys, set to a traditional tune. Boys used to work the ventilation doors in the pit.

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  8. JO HAre

    Date released
    Apr 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345870
    Story no
    4 / 4

    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...

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  9. WHITWICK

    Date released
    Nov 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346024
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Community of Whitwick join together to make their own ambulance contest a big event of the year. NCB Commentary - Whitwick, on the edge of the Leicestershire Coalfield is a small town with big...

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  10. EMERGENCY WINDER

    Date released
    Jan 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345899
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Durham mobile diesel emergency winding gear at Wheatley Hill Colliery. NCB Commentary - In Britain, with an increasing number of collieries switching over to Electric winding, new emergency...

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