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  1. Take Your Pick

    Date released
    Nov 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345630
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: new wet pneumatic picks

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  2. 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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  3. Where’s the Catch?

    Date released
    Nov 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345632
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: North-Eastern Division angling competition at Hubberts bridge between Sleaford and Boston (Lincolnshire)

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  4. 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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  5. Help Yourself

    Date released
    Dec 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345634
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: British Legion housing scheme

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  6. 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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  7. Raising the Output

    Date released
    Dec 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345636
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Skipwinding at Astley Green Colliery - the easier transport of coal from the mine to the surface.

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  8. Bricks and Sawdust

    Date released
    Dec 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345637
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI Summary - Brickworth performing dogs. BFI synopsis: The NCB-owned brickworks at Wombwell Colliery in Yorkshire. Shows clay being quarried and women workers driving the raw bricks to the kilns on...

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  9. Pipeline to Pimlico

    Date released
    Jan 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345638
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI synopsis: water heating from Battersea Power Station to local housing, includes scenes of building the new flats and opens with scenes from the film PASSPORT TO PIMLICO featuring the commentator John...

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  10. Hot Stuff

    Date released
    Jan 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345639
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: champion fire brigade at Brodsworth Colliery. The brigade (who are part-time firemen) is seen at practice.

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