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Leicestershire - PEOPLE WHO MATTER: 2) The Rescue Superintendent

Series

Series Name
Mining Review 19th Year

Issue

Issue No.
5
Date Released
Jan 1966
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1National Story - OUT OF THE ASHES
  2. 2Scotland - THE ROARING GAME
  3. 3Leicestershire - PEOPLE WHO MATTER: 2) The Rescue Superintendent

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Section Title
Leicestershire - PEOPLE WHO MATTER
Summary
NoS synopsis: the rescue superintendent, superintendent D.G. Roberts runs one of the NCB’s rescue teams.
NCB Commentary - Whenever nature strikes back in a mine, the rescue brigades are on the spot.
Here’s what a divisional rescue manager has to say about his men.
At Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire is one of the 28 mines rescue stations. Divisional Rescue Manager Coulshed talks about Superintendent D. G. Roberts.
Keywords
Mining; Emergency services
Written sources
British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue   1969, p.51
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963
Credits:
Sponsor
National Coal Board
Production Co.
National Coal Board Film Unit

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