Results: Stories
73 results found for '"County Durham"' in Location.
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.
Night Shift
- Date released
- Feb 1949
- Series name
- Mining Review 2nd Year
- Issue no
- 6
- NoS ID
- 345503
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: night shift underground at Mainsforth Colliery, Durham, coupled with railway night journey from Kings Cross to Newcastle.
Splash
- Date released
- Oct 1950
- Series name
- Mining Review 4th Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 345676
- Story no
- 3 / 3
BFI synopsis: Dawdon swimming gala.
Shifting the River
- Date released
- Feb 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 4th Year
- Issue no
- 6
- NoS ID
- 345691
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI Summary - diverting a river that threatened a mine working. BFI synopsis: The River Browney in County Durham flooded the Littleburn Drift mine and threatened Brandon Colliery. Engineers diverted the...
EASINGTON
- Date released
- Jul 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 4th Year
- Issue no
- 11
- NoS ID
- 345707
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: disaster at Easington colliery NCB Commentary - Early on the morning of May 29th, as the shifts were changing over at Easington Colliery, there was a sudden explosion in the Duckbill district...
THE LAMBTON WORm
- Date released
- Sep 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 1
- NoS ID
- 345716
- Story no
- 3 / 3
BFI synopsis: a new pit tub tippler at Lambton colliery, County Durham. NCB Commentary - Accidents can be useful! Here’s a set of derailed tubs that turned up one of the brightest ideas of the year....
PERSONAL CALL: 2.WE VISIT BLAYDON BURN
- Date released
- Dec 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 4
- NoS ID
- 345726
- Story no
- 2 / 3
BFI synopsis: scraper-box working in a 13-inch seam, with John Slater, and, the Co-operative brewery supplies miners’ club at Blaydon. NCB Commentary - Blaydon Burn is one of the many Durham pits where...
County Durham. Personal Call
- Date released
- 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review Composite Editions
- Issue no
- CMR3
- NoS ID
- 346555
- Story no
- 2 / 4
NoS synopsis: A look at the Scraper Box at Blaydon Burn Colliery.
County Durham. Personal Call
- Date released
- 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review Composite Editions
- Issue no
- CMR3
- NoS ID
- 346556
- Story no
- 3 / 4
NoS synopsis: A visit to Thrislington Colliery, and a look at the German coal plough in use there.
PERSONAL CALL: 3. WE VISIT THRISLINGTON
- Date released
- Mar 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 345738
- Story no
- 3 / 3
BFI synopsis: a German coal plough working in 2’3" seams, with John Slater. NCB Commentary - Thrislington Colliery, in County Durham, is the scene of another new development in continuous mining - a...