The Cumberland Story

Miners and managers provide an account of the modernization of the Cumberland coal mines in the 1940s. This film includes a dramatic reconstruction of the Lady Pit disaster of 1837, when 36 men died after workings beneath the Irish Sea flooded, which was blamed on lack of safety provision by callous...

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Other Authors: Infobase,, British Film Institute.
Format: Video
Language: English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : The British Film Institute, [1947]
Distributed by Infobase,
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file (45 min., 0 sec)) : sound.
Series: Humphrey Jennings Collection.
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