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Tom Eastwood Strikes Coal - 400,000,000 Tons

Date released

30 May 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/43

NoS ID

102940

Story no

3 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Near Lichfield, Staffs, geologist Tom Eastwood discovers a new coalfield - expected to yield 400 million tons when production begins in two years time.

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Chewing the Cud: Memories from Hereford’s Old Livestock Market

Subject

Agriculture; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, Unknown), £4.00

This film is the result of a community project to capture people’s memories of the old livestock market in Hereford. The aim of the project was to bring people together from all over the county to share...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2023 Video)

Single camera recording of this attractively-staged open-air production performed by the Shakesperae in the Park amateur troupe in the Italian Gardens at Maple Hayes Hall, Lichfield. The show, which has a...

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IRA shootings in Lichfield and Dortmund (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference; Speech; Vox pop

Simon Bowden reports on the shooting of three Army cadets at Lichfield railway station in Staffordshire. Detective Chief Superintendent Malcolm Bevington(?) (named elsewhere in the archive as Beverton(?)) on...

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Celebrity interview (1986)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Patrick Lichfield

An interview with one of the most famous photographers in Britain, Patrick Lichfield, which real name is Thomas Patrick John Anson.

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Three soldiers shot at Staffordshire railway station (1990)

Genre

News report; Interview

Andrew Hewkin(?) reports on the shooting of three soldiers at a railway station in Staffordshire. The soldiers, from the Prince of Wales Infantry division at Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, were taken to...

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THE LICHFIELD BOWER

Date released

9 Jun 1927

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1692

NoS ID

386024

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Many gaily decorated cars and beautiful costumes in annual procession.

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Margaret Thatcher on election delay (1978)

Genre

Speech

Speech by Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher to a Party meeting in Lichfield in Staffordshire, responding to a broadcast by Prime Minister James Callaghan in which he announced a delay in the debate...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Two Railway Crashes

Date released

7 Jan 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

866

NoS ID

013679

Story no

2 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Two Railway Crashes. DESCRIPTION: NORTHWOOD - Two Metropolitan trains crashed in dense fog. LICHFIELD - The fish train on the Fleetwood to London run crashed into a passenger train...

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London interview (1979)

Genre

Interview

London Interview: photographer and photographic press agent Tom Blau on his life and career. On his upbringing as a Jewish Hungarian in Berlin between the wars; first job as a caption writer; move to London...

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