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  1. CONCRETE RESULTS

    Date released
    Oct 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345976
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: how the cement industry uses coal, and the coal industry uses cement NCB Commentary - Around the coal fields new shapes are rising into the sky. These are the concrete headstocks of some of...

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  2. County Durham - WARM PARTNERS

    Date released
    Feb 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346361
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The supplies of heat and hot water to dwelling houses from boilers at Silksworth Colliery, County Durham. NCB Commentary - The harvest is brought in from the fields around Silksworth Colliery....

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  3. Area Profile: Northumberland. N & C No. 3 - Ashington area

    Date released
    Jul 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345966
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The reasons for the increase by over 40% of production in the coal field. HAS over town of Ashington, pan right. Cottages, pan left along street. The main street. Ruins of Newminster Abbey near...

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  4. BLAST IT!

    Date released
    Jun 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346211
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: at the Stanton and Stavely Ironworks, near Nottingham, coal is used to fire No. 5 blast furnace. NCB Commentary - Once iron was smelted - extracted from the iron ore - with charcoal. Then...

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  5. HEAT SERVICE

    Date released
    Jan 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346271
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the Midlands heat service which looks after domestic boilers. NCB Commentary - Far-sighted coal users in the Midlands rarely visit their own boiler houses these days. Why? Because of the Heat...

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  6. Automations

    Date released
    Aug 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346055
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A new type of conveyor belt using wire ropes as an alternative to rollers going through its paces. NCB Commentary - In several collieries now they’re using an improved method of running...

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  7. WASTE NOT

    Date released
    May 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345956
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: a fuel-saving boiler house where the boiler has been adapted to burn slurry at Llay main colliery. NCB Commentary - Llay Main Colliery, near Wrexham, is the site of a new coal-saving...

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  8. PROP SHOP

    Date released
    Sep 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345971
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: processes in the production of hydraulic pit props NCB Commentary - Over the past ten years hydraulic props have been introduced into British mines in greater and greater numbers until, today,...

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  9. HOME FIRES

    Date released
    Mar 1960
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346078
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the story of a foundry manufacturing stoves and cookers NCB Commentary - Coke from the N.C.B. plant at Twechar by the lorryload - Fife coal by the scoopful - these are the demands of a modern...

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  10. Nottinghamshire - Coal Grown

    Date released
    Apr 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346407
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: African violets, popular house plants, are literally reared on coal NCB Commentary - This house at Lambley is the home of Mr. G. J. Wicks. Mr. Wicks has the distinction of being Britain’s...

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