Results: Stories
32 results found for '"Tony Thompson"' in Credits.
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...
Annual Report
- Date released
- Aug 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 12
- NoS ID
- 345480
- Story no
- 1 / 1
BFI synopsis: the National Coal Board’s annual report.
Miners on the Land
- Date released
- Oct 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 345485
- Story no
- 1 / 4
Summary - Disabled miners in agriculture. BFI synopsis: disabled miners (some disabled by silicosis) visit hostels in the countryside to learn agricultural work. Visits Wentlooge Castle near Newport,...
What’s the Drill?
- Date released
- May 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 345514
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI Summary - drilling for coal (shot at Hamstead, near Birmingham). BFI synopsis: Boring into land to discover the geology and the possible location of coal.
Our Mr. Therm
- Date released
- May 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 345515
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: nationalisation of gas industry.
Training Centre
- Date released
- May 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 345516
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI Summary - Sheffield mines mechanisation centre. BFI synopsis: Follows student Gordon Harper at the centre as he learns how to handle tools, machines and flameproof equipment.
Hare and Hounds
- Date released
- May 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 345517
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI Summary - Greyhound racing at Wombwell, Yorkshire. BFI synopsis: Follows Frank Lax and his friend Bernard Stayles and their dog "Garry’s Pet" in a race at Hough Lane Stadium.
Machine Shop Window
- Date released
- Sep 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 3rd Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 345623
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: Mining machinery exhibition at Earls Court showing conveyor belts with gear-boxes, power loaders, coal cutters and loaders and a hydraulic rock drill as well as underground railways.
Marshalling Aid
- Date released
- Sep 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 3rd Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 345624
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI Summary - Rehabilitation and church parade at Nottingham. BFI synopsis: A parade of St John Ambulance men at Nottingham and a visit to the Berryhill Hall rehabilitation centre which helps injured miner...
Rhondda Gateway
- Date released
- Sep 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 3rd Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 345625
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI Summary - Shunting yard at Pontypridd. BFI synopsis: The shunting yard at Hopkinstown, and the forty trains of coal which pass through it daily taking coal from the Rhondda valley to the docks at Cardiff.