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  1. GUESS WHAT?

    Date released
    Aug 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345968
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 96-year-old winding engine NCB Commentary - What is it? ... that’s the question. A merry ground? A stirring machine perhaps? - No, it’s not either of them. Maybe this will give you a clue -...

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  2. Northumberland - Out of Darkness

    Date released
    May 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346372
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: After 4 years of total blindness a retired miner sees again. NCB Commentary - Retired miner Sam Buglass is 81 - his wife ten years younger. He walks with the white stick of a blind man but,...

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  3. PLAN FOR SPEED

    Date released
    Nov 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346064
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a tracer at N.C.B. Headquarters near Barnsley, Dorothy Hyman is seen winning the 3 "A’s" titles for 100 and 200 yards NCB Commentary - Coming off shift at Monk Bretton Colliery in Yorkshire...

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  4. EASINGTON

    Date released
    Jul 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345707
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: disaster at Easington colliery NCB Commentary - Early on the morning of May 29th, as the shifts were changing over at Easington Colliery, there was a sudden explosion in the Duckbill district...

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  5. Yorkshire: BRASS - Sheffield Band

    Date released
    May 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345828
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a miner’s comedy band (from Silverwood Colliery) which supports Rotherham United, and the 5th Sheffield brass band festival contest - won by Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery band NCB...

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  6. NOT SO DUSTY

    Date released
    May 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346043
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the manufacture of brickettes from small coal, and their sale in Lancashire. NCB Commentary - In some areas, retailing has always been part of the business of the coal producers themselves. In...

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  7. MINERS’ PENSIONS

    Date released
    Dec 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345725
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: an explanation of a new pension scheme for the mining industry. Filmed at Snowdon Colliery, Dover accounting office. NCB Commentary - At pits all over the country, the last pay day in October...

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  8. TIME OUT

    Date released
    Apr 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345824
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Relaxations of pit ponies. The Turner family in Yorkshire and their care of pit ponies. Gives detailed description of the care of pit ponies as laid down in legislation and how they are retired...

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  9. TITO - NEW ALLY?

    Date released
    1951
    Series name
    The March of Time 16th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352306
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: In March of Time’s latest release, attention is focussed on Yugoslavia, a nation which now stands politically alone and yet, by its own claim, is more Communist than Russia...

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