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JMB
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Repeated on BBC4 tonight.

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DOCUMENTARY: Scotland's First Oil Rush
On: BBC 4 (Freeview)
Date: Thursday 4th August 2016 (starting in 4 hours and 9 minutes)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)

Documentary presented by geologist Professor Iain Stewart telling the story of the shale oil industry and its lasting impact on the community of West Lothian. When inventor James Young first refined lighting fuel from a shale rock known as torbanite in 1851, Scotland witnessed the world's first true oil rush. What followed was more than a century of the shale oil industry, which employed thousands and whose fortunes ebbed and flowed with industrialisation and two world wars.
(Stereo, Repeat, Widescreen, Subtitles)
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http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=7346

Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.

On the BBC website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cb31r

And the Shale Oil industry on Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/search/site?SIMPLE_KEYWORD=shale%20oil

Martin Briscoe
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larker
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9 years ago

I watched this by downloading from BBC Store. I thought it was a very good programme. I recommend a viewing.

robnorthwales
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9 years ago

I watched this a couple of months ago when it was first out. Very interesting.

Madness takes its toll, please carry exact change

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

A good watch, especially as Prof. Stewart was in restrained mode.

On a dredge on the memory cell, I think the Scottish oil shale industry was still in the 'O' level physical geography syllabus in the 1960's, at least I vaguely recall drawing maps of the Central Lowlands with various coloured blobs for different resources.

Propa edukashun:)

ttxela
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9 years ago

In '88 we got an 'A' in Geography if we managed to locate the right classroom for the lessons ;D

A* if you remembered to bring a pen with you.

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

Mind, we did have to fight off the dragons that kept on creeping in from the blank edges of the paper:offtopic:

crickleymal
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9 years ago

You needed dragon repellant paper.

Malc.
Rusted and ropey, Dog eared old copy
Vintage and classic or just plain Jurassic
All words to describe me.

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

Wandering yet further from oil, the (rather grey) mushy peas the dinner ladies gave us every Friday was about the only repellent stuff they ever made, we could have tried them:confused:

ttxela
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9 years ago

Slightly back on topic, my Grandmother lived in Linlithgow when I was very young but I was unaware of the shale mining history at the time.

It was a very good programme.

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

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One very good part was the short sequence towards the end with the two ex-miners in the pub watching a film taken underground, did it give a name?, the only mine on AditNow with a substantial body of photos is Whitequarries Oil Shale Mine, not that far from Linlithgow as it happens (bet Cuban Bloodhound knows!)

From what was said at least it's unlikely that the remaining bings will be "landscaped" and the ecology of them sounds worthy of a programme on it's own. If there any Tyne Valley members they may know of the Spetchels in Prudhoe which have a unique ecosystem and were very nearly erased in the 1960/70's.

robnorthwales
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9 years ago

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I think the only way you'd find out where it was filmed would be to contact 'Teenzie' (Tina) through her youtube postings. She's understandably reticent about posting exact locations, though a few have been identified.

Madness takes its toll, please carry exact change

Jim MacPherson
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9 years ago

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Thanks for the clue, I'll watch it later. In some respects it's remarkable that any workings in shale are accessible, more so when they seem to have regularly used blasting as a means of getting usable material.

As much as anything it was the look of the faces of the two men when they reflected on the working conditions they had to contend with, who moves 15-20 tons (real imperial weights!), by hand, in a shift now.

risy76115
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9 years ago

#13

yeah this is the lass that was doing the exploring

https://m.facebook.com/TeEnZiE-419196744793964/

Rise from the ashes

simonrail
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9 years ago

#14

It was a very good programme with a useful presenter and plenty of factual information with a minimum of obtrusive music and flashy camera work.
My immediate thought at the end was 'Why can't they make more programmes like that?"
It was then followed by Dan Snow and the Romans which looked like a return to normality so went to bed instead.

Yes, I'll have it - what is it?

Cuban Bloodhound
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9 years ago

#15

Tina's keen alright. In the past she's found and dug out old mines on her own. I hope she gets more active again.

Gavin
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9 years ago

#16

Woolf love to look in to a Oil shale mine I was up that way last week.
Actually digging for old bottles at Phumpherston

GAVIN