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  1. Songs of the Coalfields

    Series name
    Mining Review Composite Editions
    Issue no
    CMR11
    NoS ID
    346848
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NCB synopsis: A collection of miners’ ballads. Ewan MacColl and Isla Cameron, leading folk singers of today, appear in this film to sing six traditional mining ballads: The Sandgate Nursing Song, The Best...

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  2. Living in

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334741
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A portrait of the residential training centre at Easington in County Durham, examining the wider environment, stressing the advantages of living in ("the boys are able to get a hundred hours...

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  3. New Look for Tanks

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334742
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Old Sherman tanks converted for opencast mining. Tanks seen in action; Sherman tanks (eighty of them) in a Staffordshire field. One is driven to factory where they are converted into machines...

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  4. Keep it Moving

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334743
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: emergency measures for the transport of coal in winter weather; volunteers at Haslemere station help to move coal supplies.

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  5. Coal on Ice

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    334744
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Ice hockey featuring miner players from Blair Hall Colliery in Scotland. Tom Syme, a miner and a member of the British Olympic ice hockey team. He is seen off at Dumfermline station by family...

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  6. Pithead Nurse

    Date released
    Apr 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    334745
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The newly set up medical centres with a nurse showing the surgery at Vane Tempest mine, near Sunderland, as an example. Featuring the nurse Sister Easton.

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  7. Turn of the Tide

    Date released
    Apr 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    334746
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Britain exports coal again, looking at the docks of Newcastle and Cardiff.

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  8. Miners with Gloves on

    Date released
    Apr 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    334747
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, in training with his brother and father. His brother Hughie attends the National Coal Board’s amateur boxing championships at Manchester. Other...

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  9. Rolling it out

    Date released
    Apr 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    334748
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The production of conveyor belts for the coalmines by the British Tyre and Rubber Co. at their Silvertown works in London.

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  10. Your Move

    Date released
    May 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    334749
    Story no
    1 / 4

    Summary - housing for miners. BFI synopsis: The move of the Wilks family from their cramped, shared house in Holmewood Derbyshire to a new purpose-built and prefabricated house near Chesterfield. Includes...

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