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  1. Underground Tourism

    Date released
    1980
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1109
    NoS ID
    329350
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Much of Britain’s prosperity has been based upon the "black gold" - coal - beneath the island. Barbara Ewing takes a look into the past, on an underground tour of the Chatterley Whitfield...

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  2. Glengowla (2010 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 36 minutes), £12.95

    Glengowla lead mine near Oughterard, County Galway in Ireland started in 1851 and mining was suspended in 1865. During that short 14 year period, "160 square fathoms" was stopped to produce 390 tonnes of...

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  3. Eliza Hermitage, aged 101, goes down a coalmine (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Interview with Eliza Hermitage, who is 101 years old and has just been down the world’s first underground mining museum, Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. Museum director Jonathan...

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  4. Using, losing, resurrecting 'A Different World'

    Date
    7 Apr 2015, 08:22
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Messages from Poland: Using, losing and resurrecting 'A Different World' In 1987 Channel 4 broadcast the nine-part documentary series, The Struggles for Poland. One of its parts, A Different World, is now...

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  5. LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

    Date released
    Jun 1964
    Series name
    Mining Review 17th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346248
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: A look at the miner’s safety lamp. NCB Commentary - They used to say "Don’t go down the mine, daddy," but for hundreds of years miners have done just that. In the early years the coal was...

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  6. BRITTISKA UTSTƒLININGEN

    Date released
    Jul 1962
    Series name
    Mining Review 15th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    346178
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a look at Stockholm and the British Trade Fair held there. NCB Commentary - This is Stockholm (the city on the water), capital of one of the most prosperous countries in the world today,...

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  7. WEST BY NORTH WEST

    Date released
    Jan 1979
    Series name
    Review 32nd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346751
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB Summary - About the expanding future of the Coal Board’s Western region. NCB synopsis: Black and white still of industrial area - Stoke on Trent showing smoking chimneys and factories. Pan left to...

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