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  1. BIG SHOT

    Date released
    Mar 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346037
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Arthur Rowe, shot put champion, trains for Mining Review. NCB Commentary - Introducing Arthur Rowe, a blacksmith’s striker from North Gawber Colliery. His mates enjoy the show as the 16 pound...

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  2. RAKE’S PROGRESS

    Date released
    Mar 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346038
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: New German tunnelling machinery brings life to a long disused pit. NCB Commentary - Brynlliw Colliery, abandoned in 1927 as uneconomic, is to live again. Reconstruction going on since 1954 is...

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  3. NAILBREAKER

    Date released
    Apr 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345998
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: night shift deputy Harold Cope keeps fit by weight training NCB Commentary - Night shift deputy Harold Cope has been 31 years in the pits. At 45 he claims to be one of Britain’s fittest and...

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  4. GOOD MOVE

    Date released
    May 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345957
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the rehousing of a mining community in Northumberland. NCB Commentary - At West Wylan, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, stand these 100 year old back to back cottages. Now, their days are numbered....

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