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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Coal Quiz Kids

    Date released
    May 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    353255
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: This item depicts the prizegiving ceremony, featuring Tommy Handley, following a nationwide school quiz on the subject of coal mining. The event took place at the Kilburn State Cinema in North...

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  6. No Tipping Here

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334756
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Explores ways by which tips can be reduced or eliminated, and the surplus dirt pressed back into productive service. The simplest method occurs in Coventry, where the dirt is immediately...

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  7. A Pit is Reborn: 1. Nantgarw

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334757
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Looks at the redevelopment of Nantgarw Colliery in South Wales. Previously abandoned in 1927 as uneconomic, twenty years later work began on an extensive redevelopment. Redevelopment isn’t...

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  8. British Ambassador

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334758
    Story no
    3 / 5

    NoS synopsis: A short glimpse of how two-way international trade is developing. It follows County Durham miner Harry Wilkins (the ‘British ambassador’ of the title) on a trip to Copenhagen (24th March...

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  9. Coo!

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334759
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS synopsis: This item focuses on one miner, Kent-based Tom Lancashire, and his bird Atomic Mealy, one of 15,000 competitors at the Pigeon Special event. Released in batches at ten-minute intervals, they...

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  10. Dust: 3. Rehabilitation

    Date released
    Jul 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 1st Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    334760
    Story no
    5 / 5

    NoS synopsis: What to do with miners who already have pneumoconiosis. Since it’s essentially incurable, causing permanent damage to the lungs, the NCB uses a mixture of compensation and retraining....

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