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  1. Dawnshift

    Date released
    Jun 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    334753
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: canteen women at Coventry Colliery featuring Mrs Downs, Mrs Atkins and Mrs Burdett.

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  2. Dust: 2. Suppression Underground

    Date released
    Jun 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    334754
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: pneumoconiosis.

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  3. May Day

    Date released
    Jun 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    334755
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The Scottish Miner’s gala with the march from Holyrood Palace, speeches by Will Lawther, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, Abe Moffat, President of the Scottish Miners and...

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  4. No Tipping Here

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334756
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Explores ways by which tips can be reduced or eliminated, and the surplus dirt pressed back into productive service. The simplest method occurs in Coventry, where the dirt is immediately...

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  5. A Pit is Reborn: 1. Nantgarw

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334757
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Looks at the redevelopment of Nantgarw Colliery in South Wales. Previously abandoned in 1927 as uneconomic, twenty years later work began on an extensive redevelopment. Redevelopment isn’t...

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  6. British Ambassador

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334758
    Story no
    3 / 5

    NoS synopsis: A short glimpse of how two-way international trade is developing. It follows County Durham miner Harry Wilkins (the ‘British ambassador’ of the title) on a trip to Copenhagen (24th March...

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  7. Coo!

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334759
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS synopsis: This item focuses on one miner, Kent-based Tom Lancashire, and his bird Atomic Mealy, one of 15,000 competitors at the Pigeon Special event. Released in batches at ten-minute intervals, they...

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  8. Dust: 3. Rehabilitation

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334760
    Story no
    5 / 5

    NoS synopsis: What to do with miners who already have pneumoconiosis. Since it’s essentially incurable, causing permanent damage to the lungs, the NCB uses a mixture of compensation and retraining....

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