Nottinghamshire - SAM THORNEYCROFT

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue

Issue No.

7

Date Released

Mar 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Nottinghamshire - SAM THORNEYCROFT
2. 2Fife - SPOT PRIZE
3. 3London - SPECIFY QUALITY
4. 4Nottinghamshire - SLOW, SLOW, QUICK, QUICK, SLOW

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

BFI synopsis: A visit to Sam Thorneycroft, a former director of Thoresby Colliery.
NCB Commentary - This is Thoresby, which produces a million and a half tons of coal a year ...
... more than any colliery in the country.
And this is Sam Thorneycroft, Thoresby’s Manager almost since Nationalisation, who retired last Autumn ...
We said we had come from Mining Review.

Keywords

Mining

Written sources

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

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit