From Dr Nicholas Ardizzone


I put your query to my wife who is a clever television researcher: I
paraphrase her advice here, but first a little background might help.

Assuming you are looking worldwide, the best UK source is in the records of
the National Coal Board, which ran the nationalised coal industry here since
just after WWII until it was de-nationised during the Thatcher convulsion
recently.

As will happen, the visual collections, film and stills, were hived off to
whoever bid for them and, tragically have become fragmented but, mostly, still
are traceable.

The British Film Institute have fine stuff, but Antoinette suggests a good
first port of call could be:


Beamish Open Air Museum
County Durham
DH9 0RG

Phone 44 1207 231811 x208
Fax 44 1207 290933
e-m [log in to unmask]


Best


Nick



Please Antoinette's website http://members.aol.com/antgraves/homeag.htm