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  1. DOUBLE BORE

    Date released
    May 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346207
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the Wilcox Miner has two enormous auger bits which bore into the coal, seen at work underground at Coppice Colliery, East Midlands. NCB Commentary - If someone asked you what this was, and you...

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  2. Into the Light: Sir Michael Balcon and Birmingham

    Date
    24 Sep 2013, 12:19
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    Post

    [caption id="attachment_23202" align="alignright" width="300"] https://intothelight2013.eventbrite.co.uk/[/caption] Into the Light: Sir Michael Balcon and Birmingham Birmingham City University Saturday...

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  3. PIER DRILL

    Date released
    Dec 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345982
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: experimental bore-hole tests coal reserves 1,000 feet down under the River Tyne NCB Commentary - Tynemouth Pier is playing an unexpected part in the expansion of the Durham coal field. Hard by...

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  4. Coal Gas

    Date released
    Jul 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345665
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI Summary - underground gasification experiment at Newman Spinney (Derbyshire). BFI synopsis: The first in a series of experiment whereby coal seams are set on fire and the gas created and drawn off in...

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  5. SHOW TRAIN

    Date released
    Jun 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346173
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Lord Robens, Chairman of the N.C.B., and Dr. Beeching, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, officially open the "Cosy Home Show Train" at Victoria Station, London NCB Commentary -...

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  6. GLAMORGANSHIRE - WELSH SHOVEL

    Date released
    Jun 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346046
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: New techniques at Nantgarw colliery, near Cardiff. New technique for concreting tunnel walls shown with two men experimenting on wall of surface, then underground. Shot of driving tunnel to get...

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  7. DOWNFALL

    Date released
    May 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346245
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The fall of Oakdale’s redundant smoke stacks as this South Wales pit changes from steam-winding to an automatic electric winder. NCB Commentary - For almost 40 years the smoke of the steam...

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  8. BABY TOWER

    Date released
    Apr 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346042
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A made-on-the-spot, do-it-yourself sea-boring tower helps in plotting the coal seams underwater in the Firth of Forth. NCB Commentary - The big Kinneal Colliery on the banks of the Firth of...

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  9. the Irish Question

    Date released
    12 Jun 1944
    Series name
    The March of Time 9th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    352242
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: The proud and sensitive people of Ireland are seldom out of the news, comments the March of Time, and begins amusingly with an example of the kind of tea-cup tempest which is ever...

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  10. ROOF BOLTING

    Date released
    Nov 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345980
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: how this modern technique helps safety underground in mines. NCB Commentary - Above ground the earth looks solid enough, but miners know better. Underground the strata of different rocks are...

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