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VIDEO: Beer from Coal (1959)

Post author By Boak & Bailey
Post date 11th January 2014

A coal industry documentary showing how coal powers the Charrington Brewery, Mile End Road, London. (Via the British Film Institute YouTube channel.)

Tags 1950s, BFI

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