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250 results found for '"Mines"' in Keywords.
Mine safety inspections (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a mine inspector on the shortage of mine inspectors because of budget cuts by the Health and Safety Executive. He believes there aren’t enough inspectors to keep mines safe.
Down to earth (1979)
- Genre
- Feature
Independent Radio presents Down to Earth: A Story of Coal and Colliers, part of a series written and produced by Ralph Bernard, narrated by Frank Windsor, researched by Tim Whyatt and Julie Fletcher; music...
Eliza Hermitage, aged 101, goes down a coalmine (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Interview with Eliza Hermitage, who is 101 years old and has just been down the world’s first underground mining museum, Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. Museum director Jonathan...
South Wales mine closure (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report and interview with President of the NUM, Joe Gormley about the call for industrial action over the closure of Deep Duffryn Colliery in South Wales and the NUM demand for a sixty per cent pay rise....
Joe Gormley on miners wage demand (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
President of the NUM, Joe Gormley, talks to Graham White? about the 140 pound per week pay demand which has led to a dispute with the National Coal Board (NCB).
NUM conference- Arthur Scargill interview (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Leader of the Yorkshire division of the NUM, Arthur Scargill, talks to Graham White? about being nominated as their candidate for the TUC General Council and the motion he put forward at the NUM annual...
Closure of Deep Duffryn Colliery (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
A Welsh man (not identified) talks to Graham White? about the threatened closure of Deep Duffryn Colliery in South Wales and implications for further closures in Wales of uneconomic pits.
Scargill on Deep Duffryn Colliery closure (1979)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by leader of the Yorkshire division of the NUM, Arthur Scargill, at the NUM conference in Jersey, about the closure of Deep Duffryn Colliery in South Wales and pledges to campaign on behalf of the...
Mick McGahey on Deep Duffryn Colliery closure (1979)
- Genre
- Speech
Vice-President of the NUM, Mick Mcgahey, gives a speech at the NUM annual conference in Jersey supporting the miners at Deep Duffryn Colliery, which faces closure.
Joe Gormley on Deep Duffryn Colliery closure (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
President of the NUM, Joe Gormley, talks to Graham White? about the call for industrial action over the threatened closure of Deep Duffryn Colliery in South Wales.