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[SUBTITLE]: "In overalls and lamp in hand HRH sets out to visit a coal mine, and afterwards inspects a dockyard." Continuation of above item. Medium long shot of Prince of Wales donning overalls and safety...
BFI synopsis: Carroll Levis presents a miners song. COI Commentary - Today we salute the miners who have the tremendous task of bringing coal to us in this day of need. I have written the Miners Song, as a...
BFI synopsis: Opening industrial shots whilst the commentary emphasises how much industry depends on coal. Other uses of coal are given including its use as an export. Shots of coal being loaded onto a cargo...
The Battle of Orgreave was a re-enactment of one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/5 miners strike, when police mounted a cavalry charge through the mining village of Orgreave in south...
NoS synopsis: The first of a three-part series of items about the effects of dust on working miners. It begins by explaining the problem in layman’s terms - what is now technically known as pneumoconiosis...
NoS synopsis: This item focuses on one miner, Kent-based Tom Lancashire, and his bird Atomic Mealy, one of 15,000 competitors at the Pigeon Special event. Released in batches at ten-minute intervals, they...
Summary - smallest colliery at Shevington, near Wigan NoS synopsis: ‘Our Smallest Colliery. Strikes are unknown at the Paradise Farm colliery at Shevington, near Wigan, which is entirely run by seven men.'...
BFI Summary - A miner who is also a shepherd. COI Commentary - Of course, there is other coal in Gloucestershire, and modern means of getting it. Here the shifts are changing at one of the larger collieries....
BFI Summary - Joe Baksi, American boxer, visits British miners. COI Commentary - Joe Baksi - the American heavy-weight boxer - recently made a tour of coal mines in the Doncaster area. Being a miner himself...
NoS synopsis: This staged debate shows members of the Lodge Committee of the Cwmgrach Empire Colliery discussing issues concerning mining machinery - the main question being whether they’re being...
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