COALS FROM NEWCASTLE

Series

Series Name

Review 26th Year

Issue

Issue No.

4

Date Released

Dec 1972

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1COALS FROM NEWCASTLE

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

NCB synopsis: Pan from the pier heads at Tynemouth to Tynemouth Priory. The Priory, pan down to weathered gravestones. MS of uniformed man ringing bell opening the fish market at North Shields. Unloading fish at the docks; trawlers; the market; auctioning the fish. Pan up river from north quay on the Tyne along opposite bank. Loading coal into hold of a ship. Merchant ship ‘Queensland’ docked by quayside. Ship docked at Quayside (by the Customs House) view along river to the Tyne bridges. Closer view of the bridges. Travelling shot of the Tyne bridge from the High Level bridge. The Swing Bridge, opened with a ship passing, the bridge turning. CU television screens showing the interior of the Tyne Tunnel, pan back to reveal control panels for the tunnel. A lorry passes the toll booths and enters the tunnel. Travelling shot entering, travelling through and emerging from the tunnel. Same scenes as. Newcastle rail station during the Newcastle festival; a steam engine, No. 80002 by the platform; children crowd round a steam model. ‘O’ level students undertaking a project on Shotton Colliery examining the winding engine (in action) at the colliery. The students and miners outside, the pit wheel behind them; they pass a sign for the colliery sunk in 1833. The students and miners talking and playing cards. The students taking photographs. Some of the photographs. Waves, pan back to reveal sea and beach. A girl walks along the beach collecting sea coal - narration states that over 200 miners from Shotton have transferred to the new sea coal mines. Aerial view of one of the mines. Ground shot of a mine. View from sea of mine; similar view of another mine. The sea. Mechanical cutting of coal and transporting the coal along conveyor belt. Lynemouth colliery, the Alcan aluminium plant in the background. Two women enter the Lynemouth Works building of Alcan. The power station which uses the coal from the colliery to generate electricity for the aluminium plant. A caterpillar moves coal. Pan over coal wagons to the Lambton Coking Works. Blending and automatic sampling of the coke. A building - part of he Lambton works. A furnance where the coke is created. The exterior of the furnace, men working, coke smoking. The sales campaign by the regional director of coal intended to raise awareness of the uses of coal - especially home consumption. Exterior of ‘Pearson’s Living Fire Centre’ shop. Interior of the shop; the modish designs for fireplaces by Joe Banenberg. Brick production at the Throckley Brick Works - firing, cutting, bricks on a conveyor belt, stacking and loading; specimen brick walls being examined. Scenes of Newcastle Civic Centre, including the hanging statue and fountain. New housing development along the Scottswood Road, Newcastle (?); Peterlee new town. School and school children in Peterlee. A leek club at Stormonts Main (?) Social Club at Workington; judging of the leeks; presentation of cup to winner, Jack Urwin of Ravensworth Colliery. The River Wear at Durham, cleaning the wier by Elvet bridge. Hexham Abbey; the ruins by the abbey; the Abbey from the market place. Silhouette of pit wheel and village.

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue   1973, p.63 Used for synopsis

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit

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