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  1. Big Geordie takes a walk

    Date released
    Nov 1977
    Series name
    Review 31st Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346723
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: The operation of "Big Geordie" an enormous dragline in the Northumberland coalfields. Europe’s biggest walking dragline is helping to win 12 million tons of opencast coal each year. To do so...

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  2. LUCKY STRIKE

    Date released
    Nov 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346021
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Ernie, the electric calculator at Lytham, is set in operation by remote control from Ashington colliery for the monthly distribution of Premium Bond prizes. NCB Commentary - Blackpool. The...

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  3. BLYTH SPIRIT

    Date released
    Dec 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345938
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Shipping coal in Blythe on the Northumberland coast NCB Commentary - Blyth, the important coaling port on the Northumbrian coast just north of Newcastle, shipped out 6,000,000 tons of coal last...

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  4. Area Profile: Northumberland. N & C No. 3 - Ashington area

    Date released
    Jul 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345966
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The reasons for the increase by over 40% of production in the coal field. HAS over town of Ashington, pan right. Cottages, pan left along street. The main street. Ruins of Newminster Abbey near...

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  5. GEORDIE COMES TO TOWN

    Date released
    Oct 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346062
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Geordie Browne, an 83-year-old ex-miner from Ashington, Northumberland, comes to London for the first time since the turn of the century NCB Commentary - This is London at the turn of the...

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  6. HOLYROOD GATHERING

    Date released
    Jul 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345750
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a miners annual gala at Holyrood, Edinburgh. NCB Commentary - Edinburgh was in her usual openhearted mood to welcome Scottish miners for their 6th Annual Gala, but the weather didn’t...

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  7. RIGHT LINES

    Date released
    Feb 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345774
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a new mechanised pit bottom and handling at Shilbottle colliery. NCB Commentary - At Shilbottle Colliery in Northumberland has been built a brand new pit bottom, complete with electric railway...

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  8. FIELDS OF COAL

    Date released
    Jun 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345961
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: open-cast mining summarised from start to restoration of land in Northumbria NCB Commentary - Bigger and faster machines are the keys to the striking increases in production which have been...

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  9. INDOCTRINATION

    Date released
    Dec 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346027
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Durham University awards honorary degrees to Sir James Bowman and Harold MacMillan. NCB Commentary - Kings Hall, Newcastle is to be the scene of academic pageantry, enlivened by the customary...

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  10. Automations

    Date released
    Aug 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346055
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A new type of conveyor belt using wire ropes as an alternative to rollers going through its paces. NCB Commentary - In several collieries now they’re using an improved method of running...

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