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  1. 136 Miners Killed

    Date released
    19 Feb 1925
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1165
    NoS ID
    084135
    Story no
    1 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    In terrible firedamp explosion in Ruhr coalmine.

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  2. Flash Point

    Date released
    May 1972
    Series name
    Mining Review 25th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346544
    Story no
    1 / 2

    BFI synopsis: CU coal falling onto a conveyor belt. CU mines operating power-loading machines. CU flash as methane gas (firedamp) ignites explosion and fire. Miners spraying water onto fire; shots of fire....

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  3. Mine Blast Kills 140

    Date released
    30 Apr 1934
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    331
    NoS ID
    033226
    Story no
    4 / 5

    Worst coal disaster in Yugoslavia’s history. Pathetic pithead scenes follow appalling firedamp explosion in state colliery.

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  4. FIREDAMP

    Date released
    Mar 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346164
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: methane, the fire-damp feared as a cause of underground explosions, being drained by pipes and put to good use, including the first railway locomotive to be driven on methane

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  5. Out of the Darkness - Light

    Date released
    Mar 1971
    Series name
    Mining Review 24th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346515
    Story no
    1 / 3

    NoS synopsis: How the purity of methane gas - firedamp - is measured, and one way in which the gas is put to commercial use in a light bulb factory

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  6. GASPIPE

    Date released
    Mar 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345821
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Methane drainage and ulitisation at Haig Colliery, Whitehaven. The gas is piped from the colliery to the local gasworks and mixed with town gas and used by the residents of Whitehaven NCB...

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  7. HOTHOUSE

    Date released
    May 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345873
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: research by University and Coal Board scientists on what rescue-worders can physically endure. NCB Commentary - Always on call in Britain’s coalfields are the men of the Mines Rescue...

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  8. COAL: OUR WASTING ASSET

    Date released
    Feb 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345817
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: complete issue on fuel economy and fuel conservation. Film User synopsis: provides some eloquent examples of waste (criticizing, in passing, the practices of another nationalized board) and...

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