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  1. MERCHANTS OF VENICE

    Date released
    Oct 1963
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346223
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: exports of British coal to Italy and its delivery to householders in Venice by canal NCB Commentary - One of the attractions of going abroad is discovering how people carry out the everyday...

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  2. WORKING WEEK-END

    Date released
    Sep 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346014
    Story no
    2 / 4

    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...

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  3. Lancashire & Denbigshire - THE NORTH WEST

    Date released
    Feb 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346363
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Transport in the Lancashire coalfield. NCB Commentary - Lancashire’s industrial towns and villages lie mostly tuckes away in valleys between high hill ridges. It’s difficult country to get...

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  4. WATER POWER

    Date released
    Sep 1957
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345972
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Loch Leven’s Balgonie colliery’s own small hydro-electric plant NCB Commentary - The quiet waters of Loch Leven find their way out down river to serve the only colliery in the country with...

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  5. DEEP WATERS

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345866
    Story no
    4 / 4

    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...

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  6. COALS FOR CHINA

    Date released
    Sep 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346015
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: making of porcelain and china at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Works. NCB Commentary - The "Arcturus" coal serves a factory on the banks of the canal where fine Porcelain has been made for...

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  7. THE SOMERSET COALFIELD

    Date released
    Aug 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346255
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: A single story issue on the Somerset coalfield, for its size (comprising five pits) the most highly mechanised in England. Local people give their views. NCB Commentary - 1. North-East...

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  8. East Midlands - COAL COUNTIES

    Date released
    Apr 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346369
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: A survey of Britain’s most highly mechanised coalfield. NCB Commentary - The East Midlands is the home of Britain’s most modern mine. But some say that it’s also the oldest coal-field...

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  9. SEA-BORNE

    Date released
    Nov 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 13th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346066
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Mining Review goes to Denmark with a cargo of British coal for Scandinavian power stations. NCB Commentary - By train through the English Countryside, go a party of coal buyers from five...

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