• Short Summary

    Schoolboys are taught mining along with traditional subjects at Deresford Colliery, Nottingham.

  • Description

    Mining school.

    Deresford Colliery, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.

    M/S of schoolboys watching a small working model of a coal mine. C/U school sign 'South Notts Occupational Training Centre (Mining)'. The boys walk down to their colliery which is a smaller version of the real thing. Interior M/S's as they load coal onto the conveyor belt and stack rocks. Good shots as they are taught what to do, one boy knocks a pit prop into position. M/S as a charge of explosives is put in a hole in the coal face. M/S as coal is tipped into a truck.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1241.05
    Media URN:
    33999
    Group:
    New pictorials
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    27/10/1947
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:40:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:10:08:00 / 01:11:48:00
    Canister:
    NP 163

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