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  1. MINERS’ PENSIONS

    Date released
    Dec 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345725
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: an explanation of a new pension scheme for the mining industry. Filmed at Snowdon Colliery, Dover accounting office. NCB Commentary - At pits all over the country, the last pay day in October...

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  2. PERSONAL CALL: 2.WE VISIT BLAYDON BURN

    Date released
    Dec 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345726
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: scraper-box working in a 13-inch seam, with John Slater, and, the Co-operative brewery supplies miners’ club at Blaydon. NCB Commentary - Blaydon Burn is one of the many Durham pits where...

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  3. SORTING OFFICE

    Date released
    Jan 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345728
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the rail marshalling yard at Toton, Derby. NCB Commentary - With the winter fuel demand at its peak, this Midland colliery, like all the other pits, is turning out laden coal wagons as fast as...

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  4. HIGH TENSION

    Date released
    Jan 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345729
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Leatherhead Electricity Research Station power lines, and high voltage experiments by the B.E.A. NCB Commentary - This is a common enough happening - and this. What’s being done about it?...

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  5. UNDER THE BORDER

    Date released
    Jan 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345730
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS Summary - Blackhill colliery, the most northerly in England. BFI synopsis: Shows the colliery (near Berwick on Tweed) the retail delivery service of the colliery which supplies coal to the farmers of...

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  6. TEE BOY

    Date released
    Jan 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345731
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS Summary - a boy golf champion, who is a Newcastle N.C.B. employee. BFI synopsis: Profile of John Liddle, sixteen-year-old golfer, seen at Prudhoe golf course. NCB Commentary - Meet 16 year old John...

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  7. DOWN DIESELS

    Date released
    Feb 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345732
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS Summary - lowering diesel locomotives at Moorgreen colliery, Nottinghamshire. BFI synopsis: The underground installation of two diesel locos while the colliery is closed for the annual August holiday....

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  8. EMERGENCY LAB

    Date released
    Feb 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345733
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a mobile laboratory developed in the Northumberland area for testing pit gases. The lab, developed at Benton, seen at work testing gas. NCB Commentary - At Benton, near Newcastle, is the NCB...

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  9. BIRD IN HAND

    Date released
    Feb 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345734
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: cage bird show at Olympia, with the N.C.B. exhibiting pit canaries. Includes examples of pit canaries and how they are revived. NCB Commentary - Here’s a fine sight, enough to make a...

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  10. FIRE DOWN BELOW

    Date released
    Feb 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345735
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: fire hazards on conveyor belts and how to prevent them. NCB Commentary - Fire underground is one of mining’s greatest hazards, spreading so rapidly that often it rages out of control. After...

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