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BFI synopsis: one of the most unusual by-products of mining, blac fixe, made from waste waters pumped from neighbouring pits, is produced at Backworth, Northumberland. NCB Commentary - From waste waters...
BFI synopsis: Underground canals draining Lancashire pits. NCB Commentary - There’s no more coal coming out of Ellesmere Pit, near Manchester. To-day Ellesmere is a pumping station. 200 years ago the...
BFI synopsis: two canal enthusiasts who ferry coal from Staffordshire to Worcester in their own barge NCB Commentary - At Anglesea Canal Basin by Brownhills, Staffs, narrow boats are being loaded with small...
BFI synopsis: water heating from Battersea Power Station to local housing, includes scenes of building the new flats and opens with scenes from the film PASSPORT TO PIMLICO featuring the commentator John...
BFI synopsis: the fine ash produced by power stations is put to good use in building. NCB Commentary - When the Romans built, they built to last. And the mortar they used in the Colosseum was made of...
NoS synopsis: Seven Yorkshire collieries keep Ferrybridge Power Station, one of the largest in Britain, supplied with five million tons of coal a year. NCB Commentary - Ferrybridge in Yorkshire. One of...
BFI synopsis: Sinking a new shaft through water-bearing strata.
BFI synopsis: American Marietta miner at work driving roadway through stone at Wellesley Colliery, Scotland. NCB Commentary - At Wellesley Colliery, Scotland, the Mighty Marietta is tearing its way forward...
NCB synopsis: Without water we should not survive. The ‘drought’ summer of ‘76 reinforced the message that we must conserve and only spend with care all the natural resources.
BFI synopsis: a drift mine at Newton in Scotland supplies a new NCB brickworks with clay NCB Commentary - Thousands of years ago the course of the river Clyde spread across land where today there is fertile...
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