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(Untitled record)

Date released

24 Mar 1930

Series name

British Screen Tatler

Issue no

86

NoS ID

330578

NoS synopsis: marble quarrying.

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Craftsmen of Dinorwic (1974 Video)

Director

Romola Christopherson

Subject

Archaeology; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

Shows the Dinorwic slate quarry, Llanberis, North Wales, and the men and crafts associated with it and its workshops. Retired men returned to Dinorwic to demonstrate their skills for the camera. A quarryman...

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Construction firm to sell non-core activities (1993)

Genre

Interview

Chief Executive of home construction firm Tarmac, Neville Simms talks about the company’s losses following the economic recession and how he hopes that next year will be better as the housing market is...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

30 Apr 1928

Series name

Gaumont Mirror

Issue no

64

NoS ID

333594

Story no

3 / 6

NoS synopsis: Slate Quarrying in Cornwall

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Blacksmiths, Quarrymen and Sculptors (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 202 min.

Ilustrates the working lifestyle of the last blacksmith on Portland. Includes an interview where he discusses his lifestyle. The recording then goes on to look at the event of ‘winning the stone’, where...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

8 Jul 1929

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

588

NoS ID

348289

Story no

1 / 6

NoS synopsis: diamond-quarrying

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Portland Stone

Date released

11 Jul 1955

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

028

NoS ID

120054

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the quarrying of Portland stone from the Isle of Portland off the Dorset coast.

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Slate Quarry

Date released

2 Jul 1962

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

392

NoS ID

121238

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows quarrying and processing at the world’s largest slate quarry at Port Dinorwic in Wales.

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From Slag Heaps to Dream Cities?

Date released

17 Dec 1942

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/12; Paramount Issue No.: 1231

NoS ID

156597

Story no

1 / 2

Speeding up war production by machine. Robot labour in the Midlands digs up earth for quarrying operations. Steel, coke and slag production. Slag in particular is seen to have many new uses: slag in furnace,...

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News in a Nutshell: Quarrying Competition

Date released

22 Jun 1936

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

36/50

NoS ID

093566

Story no

8 / 9

Extras

1 film clip

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