Results: Stories
12 results found for '"Mary Beales"' in Credits.
Coal on Ice
- Date released
- Mar 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 334744
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: Ice hockey featuring miner players from Blair Hall Colliery in Scotland. Tom Syme, a miner and a member of the British Olympic ice hockey team. He is seen off at Dumfermline station by family...
Pithead Nurse
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334745
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: The newly set up medical centres with a nurse showing the surgery at Vane Tempest mine, near Sunderland, as an example. Featuring the nurse Sister Easton.
Turn of the Tide
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334746
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: Britain exports coal again, looking at the docks of Newcastle and Cardiff.
Miners with Gloves on
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334747
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: Eddie Thomas seen at home with his family, in training with his brother and father. His brother Hughie attends the National Coal Board’s amateur boxing championships at Manchester. Other...
Rolling it out
- Date released
- Apr 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 334748
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: The production of conveyor belts for the coalmines by the British Tyre and Rubber Co. at their Silvertown works in London.
Your Move
- Date released
- May 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 334749
- Story no
- 1 / 4
Summary - housing for miners. BFI synopsis: The move of the Wilks family from their cramped, shared house in Holmewood Derbyshire to a new purpose-built and prefabricated house near Chesterfield. Includes...
No Tipping Here
- Date released
- Jul 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 11
- NoS ID
- 334756
- Story no
- 1 / 5
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...
A Pit is Reborn: 1. Nantgarw
- Date released
- Jul 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 11
- NoS ID
- 334757
- Story no
- 2 / 5
NoS synopsis: Looks at the redevelopment of Nantgarw Colliery in South Wales. Previously abandoned in 1927 as uneconomic, twenty years later work began on an extensive redevelopment. Redevelopment isn’t...
Dust: 3. Rehabilitation
- Date released
- Jul 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 11
- NoS ID
- 334760
- Story no
- 5 / 5
NoS synopsis: What to do with miners who already have pneumoconiosis. Since it’s essentially incurable, causing permanent damage to the lungs, the NCB uses a mixture of compensation and retraining....
Pithead Bath
- Date released
- Sep 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 345484
- Story no
- 3 / 3
Summary - a swimming pool at Dawdon colliery. BFI synopsis: An outline of the history of the pool - one of Britain’s finest open-air swimming pools - is followed by scenes at a swimming gala competition.
