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  1. First Atom Power Station: Work Pushes Ahead

    Date released
    3 Jan 1955
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2488
    NoS ID
    045484
    Story no
    1 / 9
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    Designed to generate electricity for National Grid new project will be working in eighteen months.

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  2. The Atom Joins the Grid

    Date released
    22 Oct 1956
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    56/85
    NoS ID
    107367
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

    The Queen throws the switch which links Calder Hall, first major atom plant in the world, to the national grid

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  3. Pylon Men

    Date released
    17 Sep 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    090
    NoS ID
    120267
    Story no
    2 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Introducing a group of men who go about with their heads literally "in the clouds"...the men whose job it is to construct and maintain the National Grid which carries electricity throughout...

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  4. New Power Station Opens

    Date released
    13 Nov 1977
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2528
    NoS ID
    031060
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Irish Power Station. DESCRIPTION: Ireland’s newest and largest Power Station in opened at Tarbert in County Kerry. The Station is fired by heavy residual fuel oil and will inject...

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  5. HIGH TENSION

    Date released
    Jan 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345729
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Leatherhead Electricity Research Station power lines, and high voltage experiments by the B.E.A. NCB Commentary - This is a common enough happening - and this. What’s being done about it?...

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  6. Yorkshire - River of Coal

    Date released
    May 1968
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346411
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: Seven Yorkshire collieries keep Ferrybridge Power Station, one of the largest in Britain, supplied with five million tons of coal a year. NCB Commentary - Ferrybridge in Yorkshire. One of...

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  7. Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Solving the Load Shedding Problem

    Date released
    27 Oct 1947
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    960
    NoS ID
    014738
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Shedding the Load - Factory Problem. DESCRIPTION: Many industrial plants, such as Hoover, are taking action to shed the load on the National Grid at peak times. SHOTLIST: KS GV girls...

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  8. The New Era

    Date released
    22 Oct 1956
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1429
    NoS ID
    021267
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The New Era. DESCRIPTION: Calder Hall, in Cumberland and the opening of the first large-scale atom power station in the world. The Queen performed the ceremony of the big switch-on. Sir...

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