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NoS synopsis: Surface reconstruction in Nottinghamshire is now two-thirds complete, but mechanisation means that the pit-head cannot cope with the increased production.
GB. 2008. DVD (Region 2 PAL). Second Sight. 92 minutes + extras. £19.99 About the Reviewer: Toby Haggith is a historian who joined the Imperial War Museum’s Film Department in 1988. He has a PhD in...
NoS synopsis: Hands and the miner. Study of the miner’s work, ending with the modern machines that reduce heavy manual labour. NCB Commentary - The faces of men at the end of their pit shift, the faces of...
NoS synopsis: A faceworker, Harry Haines, at Donisthorpe Colliery writes poems of his experiences down the pit. NCB Commentary - 20 years as a faceworker at Donisthorpe Colliery has not dimmed Harry...
NoS Summary - Golfing miners at Gleneagles. BFI synopsis: Miners from Woolmet Colliery (Midlothian) play golf. NCB Commentary - At Woolmet Colliery, Midlothian, it’s a pit holiday. And the colliery golf...
BFI synopsis: training in human kinetics. NCB Commentary - In Derbyshire next to Grassmoor Pit appropriately enough, is a nice stretch of green grass - it was once a pit heap - part of the 18-acre site...
BFI synopsis: inauguration of Parkside colliery, Lancashire, and the first coal from Kinneil NCB Commentary - A new name joins the list of British collieries - the first pit to be sunk in Lancashire for over...
NCB Summary - The Artist in Industry Fellowship Scheme gives a painter the opportunity of working for two months at a Yorkshire Colliery. NCB synopsis: LS man (artist Paul Butler) walking L-R past hedge in...
BFI Summary - first-aid competition at Yorkshire pit NCB synopsis: A first-aid comeptition is organised by South Kirkby pit, Yorkshire, which attracts entries from collieries all over the North. NCB...
BFI synopsis: Miners from Snowdown Colliery practice water-skiing off Folkestone. NCB Commentary - After their nightshift Bill Roberts and his mates - maintenance workers at Kent’s Snowdon colliery - head...
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