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A Pit is Reborn: 4. Bradford Colliery

Date released

Dec 1948

Series name

Mining Review 2nd Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

345495

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: a coal mine in the City of Manchester. An old mine is being improved to help provide coal to the Stuart Street Power Station a quarter of a mile away.

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Old Glengowla Lead Mine (1997 Video)

Subject

Archaeology; Engineering

Distribution

out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 15 min.

The Old Glengowla lead mine in County Galway, Ireland, operated from 1851 to 1865. Today, an underground trip down to water level shows old equipment and and a variety of minerals, and on the surface can be...

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Uomo Chiamato Apocalisse Joe, Un (1971 Film)

aka: Apocalpyse Joe

Director

Leopoldo Savona

Spaghetti western. Travelling Shakespearean actor and gunman Joe Clifford (Steffen) inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle’s murderer, controls...

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Guest Speaker

Date

20 Sep 2017, 14:49

Author

Alex Morris

Post Type

Page

We're delighted to announce Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock as our guest speaker for the Learning on Screen Awards 2017. Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to a...

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Riddings

Date released

Oct 1970

Series name

Mining Review 24th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346504

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: Ridding Drift, near Barnsley, the most productive coal mine in Britain. The story is told of how the mine was developed and the reasons given why the 160 men who work there have shattered...

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Shifting the River

Date released

Feb 1951

Series name

Mining Review 4th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

345691

Story no

4 / 4

BFI Summary - diverting a river that threatened a mine working. BFI synopsis: The River Browney in County Durham flooded the Littleburn Drift mine and threatened Brandon Colliery. Engineers diverted the...

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MOUNTAIN DRIFT

Date released

Feb 1958

Series name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

345989

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: a new drift mine going in under a Monmouthshire mountain (Cwmtillery) NCB Commentary - Under this Monmouthshire mountain lies new coald and heading in to reach it is this new drift mine. Rose...

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Mountains of Gold (1989 Video)

Subject

Economics; Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the role of the EEC, the World Bank, and multinational mining companies in the destruction of the Amazon forest and how it is related to Brazil’s national debt? Filmed over four years at Sossego,...

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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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National Story - THE AIR WE BREATHE

Date released

May 1966

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346329

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: air supply in the mines. NCB Commentary - The air we breathe is all around us. It’s presence is vital to life. Without it we should die. Every living thing draws its sustenance from the air...

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