Mining Review 1st Year No. 7

Eclectic mix of post-war stories from the world of coal, including a Dumfermline miner in training for the Winter Olympics.

It's coal on ice! This March 1948 edition of Mining Review, the coal industry's monthly cinemagazine, has a wintry feel. As well as a story on emergency measures to keep the nation's fuel supplies moving during freezing weather, it includes a feature on Dunfermline miner Tom Syme, an Olympic ice-hockey hopeful in training at his local skating rink before heading for St Moritz.

This government film is a public record, preserved and presented by the BFI National Archive on behalf of The National Archives, home to more than 1,000 years of British history.