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  1. The Forrest of Dean

    Date released
    Dec 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    334733
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - The free miners of the Forest of Dean. COI Commentary - The Royal Forrest of Dean is a national beauty spot - yet can boast a coal mining industry, worked by ancient privilege, since the time...

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  2. Shepherds from the mine

    Date released
    Dec 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    334734
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI Summary - A miner who is also a shepherd. COI Commentary - Of course, there is other coal in Gloucestershire, and modern means of getting it. Here the shifts are changing at one of the larger collieries....

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  3. Denby Washery

    Date released
    Dec 1947
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    334735
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI Summary - The coal washeries at Denbigh. COI Commentary - To the Denby Hall Washery in Nottinghamshire, come trucks from three local collieries. Eventually, when drifts have been dug, the coal will...

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  4. The problem of smoke elimination

    Date released
    Jan 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    334736
    Story no
    1 / 2

    NoS Summary - The work of the Fuel Research Station in trying to eliminate smoke from ships’ furnaces is profiled. A machine has been made that can do it. This principle is now being applied on land in...

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  5. The Miners’ Gala at Durham, 1947

    Date released
    Jan 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    334737
    Story no
    2 / 2

    NoS synopsis: The miners of Durham come together for their demonstration and gala day. Shots of the crowds and the banners and bands. This was the first rally under nationalization, so it also included...

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  6. Diesel Locos

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    334738
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The Hunslet locomotive used underground. COI Commentary - Here, in the making, is one of the answers to our coal problem. Our worst bottleneck is haulage - we need ten men to do the work that...

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  7. Miners visiting Ruhr

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    334739
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: A tour of the Ruhr by British mining engineers. COI Commentary - In July, I was one of thirty miners chosen by Colliery Consultative Committees to go to the Ruhr and see for ourselves what the...

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  8. Hound Trails

    Date released
    Feb 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    334740
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Hound trails in Cumberland. COI Commentary - Six to four the field! Six to four the field! It’s hard work for Charlie Parkinson’s lungs, but he’s not afraid of that - he used to be a...

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  9. 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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  10. 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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