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History

Gedling Colliery in 1948

A short two minute documentary about our former Gedling Colliery in 1948.

A documentary made in 1948 about Gedling Colliery, one of the deepest pits in the region. The film shows how the pit increased its output through the introduction of new technology. The colliery used a Meco-Moore cutter-loader. This conveyed the coal from the coal face to the sorting plant (weighing it along the way). Sorting of the coal was still carried out by hand. but instead of physically picking up the coal, it was pushed into the correct chutes with the aid of rakes. The commentator compares this with a croupier sorting gambling chips at Monte Carlo casino.

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