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  1. Surrey - CONVERSION

    Date released
    Jun 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346375
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The installation of solid-fuel central heating in a large Victorian house in Surrey, and its advantages in large old houses. NCB Commentary - There are still plenty of big old Victorial houses...

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  2. Testing time

    Date released
    Aug 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346054
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A recently opened laboratory to serve the scientific needs of the Scottish coalfields. NCB Commentary - With increasing competition from other forms of fuel, scientific control of the...

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  3. CUT & CARRY

    Date released
    Aug 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345839
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: cutting and lifting coal with scraper boxes at Plean Colliery, Scotland NCB Commentary - To keep pace with the rising demand, more and more machines are needed in British mines that will load...

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  4. BARN DANCE

    Date released
    May 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345915
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: barn dance in a Northumberland village with Jack Armstrong and his band. With a solo on the Northumberland bagpipe. NCB Commentary - It is the end of a Saturday shift at Dinnington Colliery,...

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  5. Northumberland - YOUNG ENTERPRISE

    Date released
    Apr 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346370
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Ashington and Beglinton youngsters devote their weekends to clearing Embleton beach, Northumberland, of war debris. NCB Commentary - Ashington - a big hearted colliery with a civic minded...

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  6. Northumberland - ORIENTAL TOUCH

    Date released
    May 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346330
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Kendo and karate in Northumberland. NCB Commentary - Northumberland has been hit by the Japanese invasion. This is Kendo, the way of the sword, most ancient of Japanese sports. But instead...

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  7. London - The Living Fire

    Date released
    Dec 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346313
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: London exhibition on making homes warmer NCB Commentary - A banner headline drew crowds to London’s Royal Horticultural Hall for the biggest ever exhibition of ways to make a house a home....

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  8. NEW LOOK

    Date released
    Jul 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346052
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: the re-opening of the modernized Wernos colliery where a coal plough is successfully used on anthracite NCB Commentary - Wernos Colliery near Ammanford - closed in 1940 as uneconomic - is in...

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  9. FRESH WATER

    Date released
    Sep 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346059
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: one of the mining industry’s biggest problems, water underground, is solved at Mainsforth colliery, County Durham, by utilising the underground water to augment local water supplies NCB...

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  10. Too Good to Burn or SPEAKING THROUGH COAL

    Date released
    Dec 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346069
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: a look at Welsh anthracite and its use as one of the most important materials in telephones (carbon granules) NCB Commentary - From the anthracite pits of Wales comes the most important...

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