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  1. A Pit is Reborn: 6. Mosley Common

    Date released
    Feb 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345504
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI synopsis: large reconstruction at the colliery near Manchester, with surface buildings and underground mine cars

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  2. Beside the Sea

    Date released
    Aug 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345621
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI Summary - Miner and family go to Blackpool. BFI synopsis: Bill Purdie (from Mossley Common Collier) and family go on holiday to Blackpool for Wakes Week - seen in landau on seafront, at the Tower, the...

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  3. 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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  4. Clean Coal

    Date released
    Jun 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345659
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Mossley Common washery

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  5. DIGGING DEEP

    Date released
    Aug 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345711
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI Summary - shaft sinking in Lancashire. BFI synopsis: Lady Balfour, wife of the Scottish Division’s chairman, cuts the first sod for two new shafts at Kinneil Colliery near Bo’ness. NCB Commentary...

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  6. ROYAL VISIT

    Date released
    May 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345742
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: the Duke of Edinburgh visits pits near Manchester, including Mosley Common and Astley Green. NCB Commentary - The little town of Tyldesley turned out in force early in April to welcome the...

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  7. SHEARER LOADER

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345864
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Anderton shearer loader at Cronton colliery NCB Commentary - On a bleak winter’s morning footprints in the snow point the way to Lancashire’s Cronton Colliery. In the Colliery Workshops a...

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  8. DEEP WATERS

    Date released
    Mar 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345866
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Underground canals draining Lancashire pits. NCB Commentary - There’s no more coal coming out of Ellesmere Pit, near Manchester. To-day Ellesmere is a pumping station. 200 years ago the...

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  9. WIGAN SKIPS

    Date released
    Apr 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345867
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: skip winding at Bold colliery. NCB Commentary - In Wigan, Area General Manager Brass has long held a faith in skipwinding, the quick way of raising his tonnages to the surface. Colliery...

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  10. NO RETURNING

    Date released
    Jul 1955
    Series name
    Mining Review 8th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345881
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI Summary - Closure of Long Lane colliery. NCB synopsis: Long Lane Colliery in Lancashire is closed after 60 years of production. Men and tools are transferred to a big new enterprise at Bold Colliery...

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