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  1. Stafford: Spadework

    Date released
    Mar 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    345646
    Story no
    2 / 5

    BFI Summary - Sir Ben Smith cuts first sod of shaft at Hem Heath, Staffordshire, on 25th January 1950. NoS synopsis: Divisional Chairman of the West Midlands, Sir Ben Smith, cuts the first sod on a new...

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  2. Winding Man

    Date released
    Apr 1950
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    345651
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: a winding man’s job at Hem Heath

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  3. WARMING THE POT

    Date released
    Jul 1951
    Series name
    Mining Review 4th Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345708
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI Summary - pottery manufacture. BFI synopsis: China making in the Potteries, at the W.T. Copeland & Sons Spode works at Stoke on Trent, using coal for firing from the Norton Pit. NCB Commentary - For...

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  4. 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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  5. Staffordshire. Personal Call

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Mining Review Composite Editions
    Issue no
    CMR3
    NoS ID
    346557
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: The mechanised room and pillar at Coppice Colliery.

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  6. FIELD OF COAL

    Date released
    May 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    345743
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: opencast mining near Stafford and restoring farm land after opencast mining. NCB Commentary - On April 1st the National Coal Board took over responsibility for all opencast coal winning in...

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  7. PERSONAL CALL: 4. WE VISIT COPPICe

    Date released
    Jun 1952
    Series name
    Mining Review 5th Year
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    345748
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: underground mechanisation at Coppice Colliery, with mechanical cutters and loaders at work, with John Slater. NCB Commentary - This month my wanderings took me up to the Cannock field, to...

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  8. Sack Race

    Date released
    Oct 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    345805
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI synopsis: The Stratford Rugby Football Club’s summer gala, with a mile race for coal-men carrying hundredweight sacks of coal. NCB Commentary - The Rugby football club at Stafford made their...

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  9. A SEAT ON A5

    Date released
    Dec 1953
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    345809
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: retired miners at Dordon, Staffordshire - how they spend their day. NCB Commentary - It’s a quiet autumn morning in the village of Dordon. Down on the corner, traffic on the busy A5 trunk...

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  10. AT HOME

    Date released
    Aug 1954
    Series name
    Mining Review 7th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345837
    Story no
    1 / 4

    BFI synopsis: Houses built for miners in Dordon, Midlands NCB Commentary - The Coal Board’s programme calls for twenty-thousand new houses for miners for miners throughout the country. In the West Midlands...

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