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  1. THE SOLWAY SITE

    Date released
    Nov 1972
    Series name
    Review 26th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346602
    Story no
    1 / 3

    NCB synopsis: The transformation of a derelict opencast coal working near Batley in Yorkshire into an informal park.

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  2. ONE WEEKEND

    Date released
    Mar 1973
    Series name
    Review 26th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346611
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: A January weekend, when a 70 year old colliery held open house - and opened a new coal-seam, when a mining engineer unveiled a new model toy, and when a big excavator crossed the country to...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Northumberland - Throckley works

    Date released
    Jun 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346335
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A new NCB brick-factory equipped with the latest automatic machinery is turning out nearly half a million bricks a week. Open-cast extraction of shale and clay (various views of the drag line...

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  6. 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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