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  1. TREE SHIFT

    Date released
    Nov 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346228
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: 2 tree-planting machines imported from America show what can be done in transplanting large trees at an open-cast site. NCB Commentary - The coal we need often lies just below the surface of...

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  2. Down in the Forest

    Date released
    Feb 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345642
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI Summary - pit props in the Forest of Dean. BFI synopsis: The care of tree plantations and the cutting down and trimming of the wood for pit props

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  3. Syczyglowice

    Date released
    Dec 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 21st Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346392
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Szczyglowice, a new colliery in Poland, is more a community than just a mine NCB Commentary - In Poland they’re still opening new mines. Syczyglowice is already turning out 600 tons a day and...

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  4. BUT ONCE A YEAR

    Date released
    Feb 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345945
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A Christmas party for miners’ children NCB Commentary - Christmas in the mining community is a family festival. Here, at a Welfare Institute near St. Helens, mine workers and Union officials...

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  5. COAL BIRDS

    Date released
    Jun 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346210
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the prize-winning pigeons owned by Jack Bramley, a deputy at Derbyshire’s Woodside Colliery, are "coal-fired". NCB Commentary - From a Dutch living room to the living room of Mr. & Mrs Jack...

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  6. SHOTFIRER

    Date released
    Apr 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345996
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: underground worker Charlie Swann, ace pigeon shooter, combines sport with useful service to local farmers by shooting unwanted pigeons NCB Commentary - Past Shireoaks Colliery, where he works,...

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  7. FRED’S PITCH

    Date released
    Oct 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 16th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346187
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the function of coal in the manufacture of carpets at a factory at Brighouse, Yorkshire. NCB Commentary - Near this spot, Robin Hood died. His bows were made from a tree in nearby Hartshead...

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  8. AVENUE

    Date released
    Sep 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345928
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the coke and by-product plant near Chesterfield. Preview of the Coal Board’s largest Coking and By-Products Plant, outside Chesterfield NCB Commentary - Three miles out of Chesterfield the...

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  9. COAL CONFERENCE

    Date released
    Oct 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345932
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: international conference on chemical engineering at the NCB Coal Research Establishment, with a talk on the future of coal from Dr. Jacob Bronowski, director of the Coal Research Establishment....

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