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Ministry of Power and Predecessors: Safety and Health Division and Inspectorate of...
Catalogue reference: POWE 8
What's it about?
POWE 8
The files relate to incidents and accidents, accident prevention, health, inspection, labour and unions, legal action, mine equipment and fittings, miners' equipment, local and departmental organisation, pit ponies, quarries and slagheaps,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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POWE 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Power and Predecessors: Safety and Health Division and Inspectorate of Mines and Quarries
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Date (When the record was created)
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1876-1984
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files relate to incidents and accidents, accident prevention, health, inspection, labour and unions, legal action, mine equipment and fittings, miners' equipment, local and departmental organisation, pit ponies, quarries and slagheaps, regulations and legislation, rescue, storage in disused mines.
Until 1920 these are records of the Industrial Department of the Home Office, thence until 1942 of the Health and Safety Division of the Mines Department, and subsequently of the Safety and Health Division of the Ministry of Fuel and Power.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Pieces 1-315 of this series are arranged in alphabetical subject order.
Pieces from 316 onwards are listed in numerical sequence according to their departmental file number order.
Subjects headings (with subject codes) have been prefixed to individual pieces.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For relevant Home Office papers see:
For records of the Ministry of Power, which also also include Annual Reports of Inspectors of Mines and Quarries see POWE 7 HO 87 HO 95
For correspondence and papers of the Chief Scientist' Division of the Ministry of Power, and their predecessors, see POWE 25
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974
- Home Office, Mines Department and Inspectorate, 1843-1920
- Mines Department, Health and Safety Division, 1920-1942
- Ministry of Fuel and Power, Health and Safety Division, 1942-1946
- Ministry of Fuel and Power, Health, Safety and Training Division, 1946-1951
- Ministry of Fuel and Power, Safety and Health Division, 1951-1957
- Ministry of Power, Safety and Health Division, 1957-1969
- Ministry of Technology, 1964-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1148 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1965 Ministry of Power
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Welfare
- Mining and quarrying
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Reports of most major mining disasters are printed as Parliamentary papers.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11825/
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Ministry of Power and Predecessors: Safety and Health Division and Inspectorate of Mines and Quarries
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