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  1. The Spirit of the Miner - "Good Friends"

    Date released
    1 Nov 1948
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    48/88
    NoS ID
    102608
    Story no
    3 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    A story on Percy Haseman, a crippled ex-miner, who is being sent to America for a cure by his colleagues from the mines in Maltby, Rotherham.

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  2. SKIRL

    Date released
    Sep 1961
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346140
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: John McMinn, a disabled miner who lost his hand in an accident, still plays the bagpipes

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  3. BOWman

    Date released
    Sep 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345842
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI Summary - disabled ex-miner leads amateur archers. NCB Commentary - The William Tell of Coundon in County Durham is Bill Green, a miner at Leasingthorpe Colliery until he was disabled 16 years ago....

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  4. Useful Robots

    Date released
    16 May 1968
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    699
    NoS ID
    122001
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: ... as they prove at Queen Mary’s College in London where some really useful robots have been built. There’s the centipede which will help the first men on the moon and a "mole" miner for...

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  5. Northumberland - Out of Darkness

    Date released
    May 1967
    Series name
    Mining Review 20th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346372
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: After 4 years of total blindness a retired miner sees again. NCB Commentary - Retired miner Sam Buglass is 81 - his wife ten years younger. He walks with the white stick of a blind man but,...

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  6. TOKYO GOLD

    Date released
    Jan 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346274
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Michael Shelton, a paraplegic miner, wins a gold medal in the paraplegic Olympic Games. NCB Commentary - When the glory and the shouting had subsided after the recent World Olympic Games in...

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  7. JO HAre

    Date released
    Apr 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345870
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: blinded miner makes good. NCB Commentary - One dark day 12 years ago, Joe Hare, a South Derbyshire miner, didn’t return his safety lamp to its usual place in the pit lamp-room. Joe, at the...

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  8. HELPING HANDS

    Date released
    Nov 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345850
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Chesterfield, famous for its landmark of the crooked church spire, the National Union of Mineworkers and Coal Board, gave attention to the building of a new wing at the Skegness holiday camp....

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  9. SAMMY ROAN

    Date released
    Aug 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345925
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a paraplegic is champion angler and fly-tier NCB Commentary - Along the roads of Fife in his motorised invalid car, ex-miner Sammy Roan is a familiar sight. Paralysed in a pit accident in...

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  10. REG LAMB

    Date released
    Feb 1959
    Series name
    Mining Review 12th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346034
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the life of a miner in Bolsover paralysed below the waist after an accident. NCB Commentary - This car is being driven by a man who has lost the use of his legs. The clutch, gear lever and...

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