Results: Stories
9 results found for '"W. H. May"' in Credits.
Bestwood Training Centre
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334725
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: Bestwood Training Centre in Nottinghamshire COI Commentary - These lades are going to be miners, but how are they going to learn the job? Should they be sent straight down the pit, where...
Open Cast Mining
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334726
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: opencast mining for coal COI Commentary - It’s Easter in Workington, on the Cumberland Coast, and everyone is waiting for the start of the historic annual football match between the Uppies...
Workington Football
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334727
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: A football match at Workington COI Commentary - COMMENTARY: Today, every available method is being used to back up the miners in their drive for more coal. In the South Wales coalfield,...
Welsh Debate
- Date released
- Oct 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 334728
- Story no
- 4 / 4
NoS synopsis: This staged debate shows members of the Lodge Committee of the Cwmgrach Empire Colliery discussing issues concerning mining machinery - the main question being whether they’re being...
NUM Conference
- Date released
- Nov 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 334729
- Story no
- 1 / 3
BFI Summary - The 1947 N.U.M. conference at Rothesay. COI Commentary - Commentary: This year’s National Union of Mine Workers Annual Conference was at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde....
Swadlincote
- Date released
- Nov 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 334730
- Story no
- 2 / 3
BFI Summary - Soil subsidence caused by mining operations. COI Commentary - Amidst the beautiful scenery of South Derbyshire lies the town of Swadlincote ... but Swadlincote itself is not so beautiful! For...
(Untitled record)
- Date released
- Nov 1947
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 334731
- Story no
- 3 / 3
BFI Summary - Joe Baksi, American boxer, visits British miners. COI Commentary - Joe Baksi - the American heavy-weight boxer - recently made a tour of coal mines in the Doncaster area. Being a miner himself...
The problem of smoke elimination
- Date released
- Jan 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 334736
- Story no
- 1 / 2
NoS Summary - The work of the Fuel Research Station in trying to eliminate smoke from ships’ furnaces is profiled. A machine has been made that can do it. This principle is now being applied on land in...
The Miners’ Gala at Durham, 1947
- Date released
- Jan 1948
- Series name
- Mining Review 1st Year
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 334737
- Story no
- 2 / 2
NoS synopsis: The miners of Durham come together for their demonstration and gala day. Shots of the crowds and the banners and bands. This was the first rally under nationalization, so it also included...