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  1. 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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  2. What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us: Working Wonders

    Subject
    History; Science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 30 minutes), £24.99

    Dan Cruickshank traces the origins of the 21st century working world in some of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution, including James Watt’s steam engine; Richard Arkwright’s spinning frame which...

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  3. THE HAPPY WANDERER

    Date released
    Jan 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346195
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the Happy Wanderer pub at Framwellgate, Co Durham, has one of Britain’s finest collections of mining relics. NCB Commentary - Durham miners who visit Framwellgate Moor’s newest pub, The...

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  4. BURNING BRIGHT

    Date released
    Sep 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345843
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI Summary - teaching lamp testing station. NCB Commentary - These are bulbs for miners’ cap lamps. Thousands of them are in use at all hours of the day and night in Britain’s collieries, and of the...

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  5. Glamorgan. Burning Bright.

    Date released
    1956
    Series name
    Mining Review Composite Editions
    Issue no
    CMR8
    NoS ID
    346581
    Story no
    4 / 6

    BFI synopsis: Lamp bulbs for miners’ cap lamps are tested at a laboratory in Treorchy.

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  6. THE MAGNET

    Date released
    Mar 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345693
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: magnetic safety lamp locks, Thorne colliery and Stoke Orchard laboratory - the Coal Board research laboratory.

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  7. STORM WARNING

    Date released
    Jul 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345920
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: barometric alarm for shotfirers at Groesfaen NCB Commentary - At Groesfaen colliery, overlooking the Rhymney valley, shot firer Tom Jones prepares to go on shift. A quick check on how the...

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  8. REG LAMB

    Date released
    Feb 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346034
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the life of a miner in Bolsover paralysed below the waist after an accident. NCB Commentary - This car is being driven by a man who has lost the use of his legs. The clutch, gear lever and...

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  9. VERTICOAL

    Date released
    Mar 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345822
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Mining in vertical seams at Gilmerton Colliery. Miners John Ross and John May are seen at work in the vertical seams. NCB Commentary - At Gilmerton Colliery, just outside Edinburgh, the way...

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  10. JO HAre

    Date released
    Apr 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345870
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: blinded miner makes good. NCB Commentary - One dark day 12 years ago, Joe Hare, a South Derbyshire miner, didn’t return his safety lamp to its usual place in the pit lamp-room. Joe, at the...

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