Results: Stories
563 results found for '"The National Archives COAL 32"' in Footage or Written Source.
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....
MINING REVIEW INTERVIEWS N.C.B. CHAIRMAN
- Date released
- Oct 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 345717
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: Sir Hubert Houldsworth speaks to camera. NCB Commentary - The new Chairman of the National Coal Board - Sir Hubert Houldsworth ...
SPACE HEATING
- Date released
- Oct 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 345718
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: heat pump at the Royal Festival Hall. NCB Commentary - The Royal Festival Hall, the most up-to-date concert hall in the world, will be London’s permanent reminder of the 1951 Festival....
ROAD TO RECOVERY
- Date released
- Oct 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 345719
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: a rehabilitation centre at Uddingston, Lanarkshire. These men are injured miners - some of them are playing in plaster casts. They’re being treated at the Uddingston Centre of the...
SHALE SPEEDWAY
- Date released
- Oct 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 2
- NoS ID
- 345720
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: mines by-products used at speedway in Hanley, Staffordshire. The event is an international evening - Britain v Overseas. NCB Commentary - Harley, of the Five Towns, where pottery and...
CRUISING UP THE RIVER
- Date released
- Nov 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345721
- Story no
- 1 / 4
BFI synopsis: barge transport of coal to London’s power stations; follows the journey from Dartford to the power station at Kingston using Thames barge the "Tyburn Brook". NCB Commentary - Feeding power...
EVERY NIGHT
- Date released
- Nov 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345722
- Story no
- 2 / 4
BFI synopsis: shaft maintenance at night at Kirkby Colliery (East Midlands). NCB Commentary - Whenever miners come off shift and coal winding stops for the day, a very special crew takes over - the men...
CHAMPION AMATEUR
- Date released
- Nov 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345723
- Story no
- 3 / 4
BFI synopsis: miner Willie Pierce competes in World Amateur Billiards, seen competing in friendly match with Australian Robert Marshall. NCB Commentary - A welcome visitor to London is William Pierce, miner...
NEW BOYS
- Date released
- Nov 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 3
- NoS ID
- 345724
- Story no
- 4 / 4
BFI synopsis: residential training centre for future miners in Scotland - Dungavel House (Strathaven) and the training pit at Kames Colliery. NCB Commentary - It’s an early morning call, for these lads...
MINERS’ PENSIONS
- Date released
- Dec 1951
- Series name
- Mining Review 5th Year
- Issue no
- 4
- NoS ID
- 345725
- Story no
- 1 / 3
BFI synopsis: an explanation of a new pension scheme for the mining industry. Filmed at Snowdon Colliery, Dover accounting office. NCB Commentary - At pits all over the country, the last pay day in October...