EAST MIDLANDS LOOKS WEST

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 15th Year

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

Jul 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1WELL DONE
2. 2EAST MIDLANDS LOOKS WEST
3. 3BRITTISKA UTSTƒLININGEN

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

BFI synopsis: the reconstruction of Cadley Hill Colliery on the western fringe of the East Midlands coalfield to work reserves totalling some 60 million tons
NCB Commentary - The old pit at Cadley Hill, near Burton-on-Trent is being reconstructed to work reserves totalling some sixty-million tons on the western fringe of the East Midlands coal-field. The old pit produced less than a thousand tons a day - the new will raise it to three thousand. The labour force required will go up from five hundred and fifty-nine to one-thousand-two-hundred and thirty-six, and as the seams are thick, working conditions should be good.
The new drift, one-thousand, one hundred and eighty yards long is the heart of the rebuilding and a cable belt system will bring the coal up at the rate of three hundred and fifty tons an hour.
To drive it, a five-hundred horse-power motor has been installed. Cadley Hill’s old steam winding engine, built in 1868, not far off a century ago, will no longer haul the tubs to the surface, and Number One shaft will be used only for ventilation.
The ill-lit, cold workshops give way to the new. It’s a big contrat and a five ton gantry crane brings almost any job within its scope.
A new shed will serve the locomotive, which keep the coal wagons going to and from the big new preparation plant, which already handles the output from four other nearby pits and soon a fifth, Church Gresley will be added to the list.
Like the new pits in the East, Cadley Hill is opening up a new frontier of coal.

Keywords

Mining; Engineering; Energy resources

Locations

Derbyshire; England; Cadley

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases   Used for synopsis
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Production Co.

Documentary Technicians Alliance

Sponsor

National Coal Board