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  1. Success Story

    Date released
    Nov 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345631
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Wentworth Silkstone (in Yorkshire) record output; production has increased from 500 tons per day to 1000 tons. Story highlights the contribution of the work force as well as that of modernization.

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  2. Coal in Your Stocking

    Date released
    Nov 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345633
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI Summary - Disabled miners working in nylon factory. BFI synopsis: Outlines the use of nylon (including during World War II) and its production from coal. Such is the demand for nylon that a new factory...

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  3. Miners on Wheels

    Date released
    Dec 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345635
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: cycling rally at Matlock, Derbyshire with the Thurcroft Cycling Club from Rotherham

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  4. Full Support

    Date released
    Jan 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345640
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: Tromit gatehead safety device, Wales, at the New Cross Hands Colliery.

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  5. American Miner

    Date released
    Feb 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345641
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI Summary - new machinery at Donisthorpe. BFI synopsis: The Joy Continuous miner from America; the press (television and newspaper) attending the demonstration. A detailed view of the machine.

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  6. Down in the Forest

    Date released
    Feb 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345642
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI Summary - pit props in the Forest of Dean. BFI synopsis: The care of tree plantations and the cutting down and trimming of the wood for pit props

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  7. Get this Straight

    Date released
    Feb 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345643
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: steel prop reclamation at Grimesthorpe Colliery.

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  8. Mixing it

    Date released
    Feb 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345644
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: N.C.B. boxing context at Doncaster. With Foster Dixon v Stan Bridges (two thirteen-year-olds), Eddy Cadman and Eric Buxton (welter-weight), Reg Lancashire and Harrison of Grange (lightweight).

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  9. Northumberland: Side Line

    Date released
    Mar 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345645
    Story no
    1 / 5

    BFI Summary - miners’ railway at Ashington NoS synopsis: Shots of a railway line built especially for transporting coal, which aso runs a 24 hour passenger service. The Ellington train runs between...

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  10. Stafford: Spadework

    Date released
    Mar 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345646
    Story no
    2 / 5

    BFI Summary - Sir Ben Smith cuts first sod of shaft at Hem Heath, Staffordshire, on 25th January 1950. NoS synopsis: Divisional Chairman of the West Midlands, Sir Ben Smith, cuts the first sod on a new...

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