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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Coal Cooker

    Date released
    May 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    334750
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A look at the work of the coke ovens at Fell Coke Co., Consett in County Durham. The commentary points out that coal and steel were two of Britain’s most important industries in the late...

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  9. Dust: 1. Medical Report

    Date released
    May 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    334751
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: The first of a three-part series of items about the effects of dust on working miners. It begins by explaining the problem in layman’s terms - what is now technically known as pneumoconiosis...

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  10. Lighting up

    Date released
    Jun 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    334752
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: The manufacture and testing of fluorescent lighting made at General Electric Co., North Wembley. The lighting in use at Chislet Colliery in Kent.

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