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London - Thirsty Work

Date released

Oct 1965

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346307

Story no

4 / 4

NoS synopsis: coal for steam in a large London brewery. NCB Commentary - Men are choosy too. Only the best materials must be used. Hops in bulk. Sampled by an expert nose. Power house of Britain’s...

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Quiet Room, The (1972 Film, Video)

Director

Frank Goulding

Producer

F W Connery Chappell

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Operation of the National Control Centre in London which directs the country’s electrical power transmission system.

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Electricity privatisation (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report

Gareth Furby reports on the privatisation of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) announced by Cecil Parkinson and what this means for the customer including issues around nuclear power. With...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.52: Programme 52 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 52 Programme 52 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 18 October 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Body discovered Palmers Green (1987)

Genre

Interview

The badly beaten body of an unidentified man has been found by an Electricity Board employee in a road off Broomfield Lane, Palmers Green, London. A police spokesman makes an appeal for anyone who may have...

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Rose Davis on her husband’s conviction (1975)

Genre

Press conference

George Davis has been convicted for armed robbery at the London Electricity Board. His wife, Rose, tells reporters that she will not stop (campaigning for justice) until her husband goes free. Male...

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LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

Date released

Jun 1964

Series name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue no

10

NoS ID

346248

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: A look at the miner’s safety lamp. NCB Commentary - They used to say "Don’t go down the mine, daddy," but for hundreds of years miners have done just that. In the early years the coal was...

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CEGB Electrical Engineers

Date released

Oct 1969

Series name

Parade

Issue no

71

NoS ID

352650

Story no

3 / 5

COI synopsis: A special course for qualified overseas engineers at the Central Electricity Generating Board’s London headquarters.

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Computers And Control

Date released

1965

Series name

Frontier

Issue no

7

NoS ID

324973

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Christopher Strachey, Fellow of Churchill College and an authority on computers, traces their development up to the ATLAS fast digital computers used by London and Manchester Universities....

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Flying Scotsman

Date released

Mar 1968

Series name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

346401

Story no

1 / 4

NoS synopsis: The Flying Scotsman, now privately owned, on a run from Grimsby to London NCB Commentary - Back in the 1930s - as it still does today - a train left Kings Cross in London every morning for...

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