No Tipping Here
Series
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- Mining Review 1st Year
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 5
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: Explores ways by which tips can be reduced or eliminated, and the surplus dirt pressed back into productive service. The simplest method occurs in Coventry, where the dirt is immediately returned underground as soon as it’s been separated from the coal. But in Blyth in Northumberland, there is a more practical use for the dirt: it can be used to counter the effect of coastal erosion, with dirt and rubble being used to construct seawalls.
The item also shows how scientists are working out new methods of dealing with the dirt, not least investigating whether trees can be persuaded to grow in it. If their experiments are a success, the dirt can be used as a base for new forests - which, as the commentator points out, will also provide a ready source of timber. - Researcher Comments
- According to bfi sources this story was researched on 21st April 1948. It was then fimled from the 4th to the 6th May.
- Keywords
- Mining
- Written sources
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Viewing Copy - bfi screenonline
Hogenkamp, A. P., unpublished DPhil thesis pxxxvi.
BFI Screenonline synopsis ID No.1223616
- Credits:
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- Production Co.
- Documentary Technicians Alliance
- Director
- Douglas Lyne
- Cutter
- Mary Beales
- Sponsor
- National Coal Board
- Camera
- Ronald Bicker
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How to cite this record
'No Tipping Here', Mining Review 1st Year Issue No. 11, Jul 1948. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/334756 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)