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  1. Too Good to Burn or SPEAKING THROUGH COAL

    Date released
    Dec 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346069
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: a look at Welsh anthracite and its use as one of the most important materials in telephones (carbon granules) NCB Commentary - From the anthracite pits of Wales comes the most important...

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  2. CRUISING UP THE RIVER

    Date released
    Nov 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345721
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: barge transport of coal to London’s power stations; follows the journey from Dartford to the power station at Kingston using Thames barge the "Tyburn Brook". NCB Commentary - Feeding power...

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  3. BIRD IN HAND

    Date released
    Feb 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345734
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: cage bird show at Olympia, with the N.C.B. exhibiting pit canaries. Includes examples of pit canaries and how they are revived. NCB Commentary - Here’s a fine sight, enough to make a...

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  4. SANDS OF DEE

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345865
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: point of Ayr reconstruction NCB Commentary - Point of Ayr Colliery, most northerly in Wales, comes into the headlines as its million pound reconstruction scheme nears completion. From this...

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  5. LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

    Date released
    Jun 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346248
    Story no
    2 / 4

    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...

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  6. MINEWATCHING

    Date released
    Oct 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346019
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Northumberland miners who staff the Royal Naval minewatching service. NCB Commentary - The coal port of Blyth stands at the mouth of the river of the same name. Leaving the pit are two mine...

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  7. ROYAL CHAMPIONS

    Date released
    Sep 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345715
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: pit ponies at the Royal Agricultural Show, Cambridge. NCB Commentary - every year the famous "Royal" brings together farmers and breeders from all over the world - and people who only keep a...

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  8. MARK TWAIN

    Date released
    Oct 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346017
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the positioning of the second sea-boring unit off Blackhall colliery, Durham. NCB Commentary - West Hartlepool, celebrated in the annals of British shipbuilding. Today an unfamiliar structure...

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  9. BLYTH SPIRIT

    Date released
    Dec 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345938
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Shipping coal in Blythe on the Northumberland coast NCB Commentary - Blyth, the important coaling port on the Northumbrian coast just north of Newcastle, shipped out 6,000,000 tons of coal last...

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  10. WINGED VICTORY. F.A.

    Date released
    Mar 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345820
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Amateur Cup Second Round Match, Pegasus v Gelding Colliery, Pegasus winning 6 goals to 1 NCB Commentary - In the cold early morning of January 23rd coal winding started at half past five...

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