Results: Stories
73 results found for '"County Durham"' in Location.
OVERHAUL
- Date released
- Apr 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 8
- NoS ID
- 345740
- Story no
- 2 / 3
BFI synopsis: the Coal Board’s Lambton Engine Works, County Durham, repairing and building the Board’s rolling stock. NCB Commentary - This engine, and its train of wagons, is coming out of hospital....
CROOK DRAWS
- Date released
- May 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 9
- NoS ID
- 345744
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: Crook Town amateur soccer team in the quarter finals; Crook play Walton & Hersham from Surrey. NCB Commentary - The Durham township welcomes a horde of visitors from the South for the 4th...
THE BIG MEETING
- Date released
- Oct 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review 6th Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 345759
- Story no
- 1 / 3
BFI synopsis: the Durham miners’ gala. NCB Commentary - Grey towers of Durham, Yet well I love thy mixed and massive piles, Half church of God, half castle ‘gainst the Scot, And long to roam these...
NEW SCHOOL
- Date released
- Nov 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review 6th Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345765
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: opening of a new school at Kelloe, Durham, mainly for miners’ children. NCB Commentary - South-east of Durham City is the mining village of Kelloe, with its characteristic pit tip. Here a...
LADY DAY
- Date released
- Dec 1952
- Series name
- Mining Review 6th Year
- Issue no
- 4
- NoS ID
- 345767
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: meeting of Women’s Institutes in Durham. NCB Commentary - Poor old Charlie! "Come on - make up your minds, will you !" Twice a year the Durham East Coast Goups of Women’s Institutes holds...
COMIN’ ROUND THE MOUNTAIN
- Date released
- Mar 1953
- Series name
- Mining Review 6th Year
- Issue no
- 7
- NoS ID
- 345778
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: antique locomotives at Seaham Harbour - locos from the 1870s and 1890s still working. NCB Commentary - Dawdon Colliery, in County Durham, sends much of its coal for shipment to nearby Seaham...
WASP’S NEST
- Date released
- Jun 1953
- Series name
- Mining Review 6th Year
- Issue no
- 10
- NoS ID
- 345792
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: ice hockey team the Durham Wasps play a representative England team. Includes a skating demonstration by Alice Smith and Joe Dixon. NCB Commentary - Durham, cathedral city on the Wear and...
August Holidays
- Date released
- 5 Aug 1954
- Series name
- Universal News
- Issue no
- 2510
- NoS ID
- 154125
- Story no
- 1 / 5
- Extras
- 1 commentary sheet
Cricket at Arundel (67 feet) Old Time cricket (59 feet) Model aircraft meet (55 feet) St Oswald’s festival (37 feet) Ship afire (43 feet) Bus smash and Cowes yachting (93 feet)
WINLATON SWORD DANCE
- Date released
- Jan 1955
- Series name
- Mining Review 8th Year
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 345857
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: Blaydon miners’ children sword-dancing.
119 NOT OUT
- Date released
- Jan 1955
- Series name
- Mining Review 8th Year
- Issue no
- 5
- NoS ID
- 345858
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: an old steam engine at work at Warden Law colliery. NCB Commentary - Still in the county of Durham, across the high moorland country inland from Sunderland’s busy port, 62-year-old Alfred...