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"Russians Visit 2". A Russian mining delegation visits the Midlands. We see them at Littleton Colliery in Cannock, Calverton and Thoresby Collieries in Nottinghamshire, walking through the new shopping centre in Coventry, inspecting mine workers houses near Coventry and finally visiting the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon.
"Avenue". A look at the operation of Avenue Coking Plant at Wingerworth near Chesterfield in Derbyshire which is the largest facility in the country.
"Area Profile East Midlands No. 3 Edwinstowe". The North Nottinghamshire coal field around the Dukeries area is the most profitable in the country. We see mechanised mining at Thoresby Colliery; mine cars at Welbeck Colliery; some of the facilities the miners enjoy including a swimming pool at Sherwood Colliery; the interior of a typical mine workers house; rebuilding work underway at Rufford Colliery; a training facility at Mansfield; a shaft being sunk for the new Bevercotes Colliery; the town of Retford; workers drilling at Ranby looking for new sites; and finally the Lound Hall training college.
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Sherwood Colliery closed in 1992 with Bevercotes and Rufford following the next year.