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  1. Whitehaven Pit Disaster. Terrible Explosion Causes Loss of 39 Lives

    Date released
    11 Sep 1922
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1197
    NoS ID
    079047
    Story no
    6 / 6

    Smoke from pit head. Miners resting and waiting outside office.

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  2. Again ‘King Coal’ Takes Toll

    Date released
    5 Feb 1931
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    31/11
    NoS ID
    088935
    Story no
    1 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip

    28 miners lose their lives in terrible explosion two miles under the sea, from the shaft of the Haig Pit.

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  3. The Nine Women Mayors

    Date released
    23 Jan 1928
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1470
    NoS ID
    086546
    Story no
    2 / 11
    Extras
    1 film clip

    at Southampton, Pudsey, Tenby, West Bromwich, Eastbourne, Whitehaven, Deptford, Litchfield and Wrexham, entertained by Miss Margaret Beavan, Liverpool’s popular mayor.

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  4. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: William Pit Disaster

    Date released
    21 Aug 1947
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    950A
    NoS ID
    014603
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: William Pit Disaster. DESCRIPTION: A heavy loss of life was incurred when an explosion took place deep in the William Pit at Whitehaven. SHOTLIST: GV pit as seen from cliffs, sea in...

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  5. Gift of an Anonymous Donor

    Date released
    25 Jan 1926
    Series name
    Pathe Super Gazette
    Issue no
    1262; Super Issue No.: 26-Jul
    NoS ID
    084790
    Story no
    8 / 10
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Whitehaven Castle - opened as a hospital by Princess Mary.

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  6. Nuffield Fund Re-Opens Mine Long Left Idle

    Date released
    5 Apr 1937
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    637
    NoS ID
    035119
    Story no
    2 / 7
    Extras
    1 shot list

    Hope comes to special area. Grant from Lord Nuffield’s Fund aids re-opening of long-closed mine.

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  7. Whitehaven Disaster

    Date released
    21 Aug 1947
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1719
    NoS ID
    040679
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Courageous rescue work marks pit disaster which claims one hundred and four victims in Britain’s oldest under-sea mine.

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  8. WHITEHAVEN WHIPPETS

    Date released
    Mar 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346165
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a favourite pastime of the people of Cumberland - racing whippets.

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  9. News in Flashes

    Date released
    17 Dec 1951
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    51/101
    NoS ID
    104491
    Story no
    4 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Atomic fishing.

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  10. The Prince - - "Pit Lad"

    Date released
    4 Jul 1927
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1412; Super Issue No.: 27/53
    NoS ID
    086074
    Story no
    3 / 9
    Extras
    1 film clip

    During tour of Lake District, the Prince, to joy of spectators, descends Haig Pit, in miner’s overalls.

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