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  1. THE LAMBTON WORm

    Date released
    Sep 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345716
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a new pit tub tippler at Lambton colliery, County Durham. NCB Commentary - Accidents can be useful! Here’s a set of derailed tubs that turned up one of the brightest ideas of the year....

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  2. MINING REVIEW INTERVIEWS N.C.B. CHAIRMAN

    Date released
    Oct 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345717
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Sir Hubert Houldsworth speaks to camera. NCB Commentary - The new Chairman of the National Coal Board - Sir Hubert Houldsworth ...

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  3. SPACE HEATING

    Date released
    Oct 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345718
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: heat pump at the Royal Festival Hall. NCB Commentary - The Royal Festival Hall, the most up-to-date concert hall in the world, will be London’s permanent reminder of the 1951 Festival....

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  4. ROAD TO RECOVERY

    Date released
    Oct 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345719
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a rehabilitation centre at Uddingston, Lanarkshire. These men are injured miners - some of them are playing in plaster casts. They’re being treated at the Uddingston Centre of the...

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  5. SHALE SPEEDWAY

    Date released
    Oct 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345720
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: mines by-products used at speedway in Hanley, Staffordshire. The event is an international evening - Britain v Overseas. NCB Commentary - Harley, of the Five Towns, where pottery and...

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  6. EVERY NIGHT

    Date released
    Nov 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345722
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: shaft maintenance at night at Kirkby Colliery (East Midlands). NCB Commentary - Whenever miners come off shift and coal winding stops for the day, a very special crew takes over - the men...

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  7. CRUISING UP THE RIVER

    Date released
    Nov 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345721
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: barge transport of coal to London’s power stations; follows the journey from Dartford to the power station at Kingston using Thames barge the "Tyburn Brook". NCB Commentary - Feeding power...

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  8. CHAMPION AMATEUR

    Date released
    Nov 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345723
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: miner Willie Pierce competes in World Amateur Billiards, seen competing in friendly match with Australian Robert Marshall. NCB Commentary - A welcome visitor to London is William Pierce, miner...

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  9. NEW BOYS

    Date released
    Nov 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345724
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: residential training centre for future miners in Scotland - Dungavel House (Strathaven) and the training pit at Kames Colliery. NCB Commentary - It’s an early morning call, for these lads...

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  10. REAPING THE WIND

    Date released
    Dec 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345727
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: a windmill electricity generator at Costa Head in Orkney. NCB Commentary - The northernmost regular air service in Britain is the run between Aberdeen and the Orkney and Shetland islands....

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