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  1. Central Workshops

    Date released
    Nov 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345489
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: The work of Cowdenbeath Central Workshops in Scotland which employs 750 men and serves forty collieries. The workshops provide overhaul, repair and engineering facilities to the collieries....

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  2. A Pit is Reborn: 3. Macrihanish

    Date released
    Nov 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345490
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Reconstruction scheme to create a new Scottish drift mine on the Argyll coast of Scotland after 20 years. It uses up-to-date machinery now.

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  3. Miners’ Health Centre

    Date released
    Nov 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345491
    Story no
    3 / 5

    NoS synopsis: How miners at Banwen, Rhondda, helped to make a Welsh health centre with the help of their doctor, Dafydd Thomas. Scenes inside the centre include the physiotherapist and the radiographer using...

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  4. Shipyard for Colliers

    Date released
    Nov 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345492
    Story no
    4 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Shipbuilding at Sunderland, Yard No 397. The building of a collier for the coal trade around the coast of Britain. The launch and fitting out of "Pompey Light" and the loading of "Birchwood"...

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  5. Cue for Ladies

    Date released
    Nov 1948
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    345493
    Story no
    5 / 5

    NoS synopsis: A friendly match between two women champions from mining villages - Miss Ruth Harrison from Burnhopefield (near Newcastle-on-Tyne) and Miss Agnes Morris from Ammanford, Wales - featuring Joe...

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  6. Push Button Pay

    Date released
    Jan 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345498
    Story no
    1 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Mechanised accounting in the cashier’s office in Area 6, East Midlands. Shows the operations including punch cards done by women in order to pay the miners their wages. The entire system is...

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  7. A Dim View

    Date released
    Jan 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345499
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS synopsis: A news story of fog and smoke. States that it is the worst fog for eight years making delivery of coal difficult. Urges people to use coal economically. Shows smoke cleaning measures for...

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  8. Talent Scout

    Date released
    Jan 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345500
    Story no
    3 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Rotherham United, the mainly miners’ football club (8 of their players are full-time miners). Follows Rotherham scout, Joe McGuire, to a colliery match at Frickely (Yorkshire). Rotherham...

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  9. A Pit is Reborn: 5. Gedling

    Date released
    Jan 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    345501
    Story no
    4 / 4

    NoS synopsis: Surface reconstruction in Nottinghamshire is now two-thirds complete, but mechanisation means that the pit-head cannot cope with the increased production.

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  10. A Star Drops in

    Date released
    Jul 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    345618
    Story no
    3 / 3

    BFI Summary - Paul Robeson revisits the miners. NoS synopsis: Robeson visits Woolmet Colliery canteen and sings "Joe Hall". Includes clips from PROUD VALLEY.

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