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Closure of Deep Duffryn Colliery (1979)

Genre

Interview

A Welsh man (not identified) talks to Graham White? about the threatened closure of Deep Duffryn Colliery in South Wales and implications for further closures in Wales of uneconomic pits.

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Bentley colliery to close (1993)

Genre

Interview

Angela Rippon interviews Robert Fiedor(?), Yorkshire President of the Pit Deputies Union, NACODS, who describes the reaction to the news Bentley Colliery near Doncaster will close. Fiedor describes the...

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Colliery Disaster

Date released

9 Nov 1925

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1240

NoS ID

084651

Story no

4 / 9

Extras

1 film clip

8 killed at Pendleton Colliery in workings 2,000 feet down and 2 1/2 miles from shaft.

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Network (1981)

Genre

Documentary

Metro Radio Manchester presents The Hartley Colliery Disaster, a look back at the 1862 mining disaster at Hartley Colliery, Northumberland in which over 200 miners died.

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Closure of Mardy Colliery (1990)

Genre

Interview; Music; News report; Vox pop

Sally Johnson reporting on the closure of Mardy Colliery, the last remaining colliery in the Rhondda Valleys. Includes reaction from NUM lodge chairman Mike Richards; vox pop with locals including miner Eric...

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Tony Benn visits colliery (1977)

Genre

Interview

Secretary of State for Energy, Tony Benn, discusses the miners’ pay whilst on a visit to Parkside Colliery in Lancashire. He discusses the decision to hold out for a larger pay increase. Male interviewer...

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Prince George Visits the Oakdale Colliery

Date released

21 Dec 1931

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

151

NoS ID

138406

Story no

7 / 9

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Forty Pits Flooded. Safety Men Return and Pumping Restarted at Glamorgan Colliery

Date released

14 Apr 1921

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1050

NoS ID

078360

Story no

5 / 5

Flooded pit. Soldiers guard Glamorgan colliery offices. Crowd of colliers.

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Picketing at Kent pits at end of miners strike (1985)

Genre

News report; Special; Interview

Report on the continuing picket line action at Kent pits at the end of the miners’ strike, over the NCB’s failure to guarantee an amnesty and reinstate those dismissed during the dispute. Includes...

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The Muirkirk Disaster

Date released

25 Nov 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1486

NoS ID

022048

Story no

3 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mine Disaster. DESCRIPTION: Seventeen Ayrshire miners lost their lives in the disaster at Kames Colliery. All were men of Muirkirk. Eleven others were injured by the pit explosion. The...

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