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  1. CWM CARN CONVEYOR

    Date released
    Feb 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345991
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the colliery with the longest above-ground conveyor in the country NCB Commentary - Sheltered by the forests of this little valley stands a pit in the process of reconstruction, Cwm Carm...

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  2. Historical Disasters: Black Christmas (2012)

    Subject
    History

    This documentary tells the story of the Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21 December 1910 in which 344 men and boys died, after an explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit, near Bolton, Lancashire. The film...

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  3. TUNNELLING-TODAY

    Date released
    Jul 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346254
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The link up of two pits on opposite sides of the Firth of Forth by a tunnel, in order to increase production. NCB Commentary - It’s morning on Scotland’s Firth of Forth. On the south...

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  4. National Story - NCB - TV

    Date released
    Aug 1965
    Series name
    Mining Review 18th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    346300
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Mobile television studio in action in South Wales. NCB Commentary - Up into daylight at the end of the shift - and what on earth is a television screen doing at pit bank? The story starts in...

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  5. DERBY RAM

    Date released
    May 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345786
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: new automatic mine car handling (surface tub handling) at Donisthorpe Colliery. NCB Commentary - Donisthorpe Colliery in Derbyshire has installed a new tub handling circuit on the surface,...

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  6. MECHANIZATION SQUAD

    Date released
    Oct 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 10th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345930
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: In the Lothians area a group of Mining Engineers facilitates the introduction of new mechanical mining methods at local collieries. NCB Commentary - Whitehill Colliery is the scene of an...

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  7. PROGRESS REPORT: PITHEAD BATHS

    Date released
    May 1958
    Series name
    Mining Review 11th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346000
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a report on the progress of washing facilities, from the tub by the kitchen fire to modern baths NCB Commentary - To a miner the end of the shift doesn’t mean that he’s finished with coal...

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  8. ROPE TRICK

    Date released
    Jan 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 6th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345770
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: the automatic surface haulage layout at Kingshill collieries, Lanarkshire. NCB Commentary - The new Number 5 pit at Kingshill in Lanarkshire is two miles across the moor from Kingshill number...

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  9. Tom McGuinness

    Date released
    Jun 1966
    Series name
    Mining Review 19th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346333
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Tom McGuinness, a Durham miner-painter is a painter who finds most of his subjects in colliery life and the coal industry. Pull back from spoil heap to show terraced housing on steep hill....

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  10. THE JACKPOT

    Date released
    Mar 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345737
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: four Derbyshire miners win £75,000 on the football pools. Stanley Wright, Malcolm Pugh, Cyril Calladines and William Ford (from Glapwell Colliery) collect their winnings from Vernon’s Pools....

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