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Reference
(The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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POWE 10
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Title
(The name of the record)
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Ministry of Power and predecessors and successors: Establishments Division: Correspondence and Papers
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1887-1973
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Description
(What the record is about)
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From 1920 to 1942 these are mainly records of the Establishment Division of the Mines Department and subsequently of the Establishments Division of the Ministries of Fuel and Power and of Power.
Included in the series are records of the Industrial Department of the Home Office concerning the safety and welfare of the mine workers, and certain Board of Trade papers relating to the coal, gas, petroleum and electricity industries, and papers relating to those bodies' structure and functions, and papers covering staffing, pay, trade union matters and to departmental and other committees.
Some later files are also concerned with the post-war reorganisation of the coal, gas, electricity, and iron and steel industries, their relations with various government departments and relevant staff superannuation schemes.
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Arrangement
(Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
POWE 10/1-297 are arranged by 13 numbered subjects. POWE 10/298 onwards are arranged by former reference. The 13 numbered subjects of POWE 10/1-297 are:
- 1. Accounts and Estimates:
- Departmental Estimates
- Accounts and Accounting
- Payment of Fees
- 2. Board for Mining Examinations (Mining Qualifications Board)
- 3. Departmental Organisation, Staffing and Functions:
- General questions
- Petroleum Organisation
- Electricity Commission
- Coal Valuation Boards
- Regional Coal Organisation
- 4. Emergency Regulations
- 5. Gallantry Awards
- 6. Miners' Welfare Commission
- Miners' Welfare Fund
- Miners' Welfare National Scholarship Scheme
- Miners' Welfare Committee and Commission
- 7. Mines Inspectorate
- 8. National Coal Board (prior to nationalisation)
- 9. Patents: Procedure for Assignment
- 10. Plans of Abandoned Mines
- 11. Public Boards, Committees and Commissions.
- Electricity Commission
- Departmental and other Committees
- Committees of Investigation; Coal Act, 1930
- 12. Safety in Mines Research Board (Safety in Mines Research Establishment)
- 13. Superannuation
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Related material
(A cross-reference to other related records)
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For files in the EST series produced by the Establishment Division of the Department of Energy, and a few re-registered Ministry of Power establishment files, see
EG 10
For other related records see
BX
For files in the E series see
HF 6
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Separated material
(A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For re-registered files on establishment matters see
FV 35
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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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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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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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879 file(s)
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Access conditions
(Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
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Labour
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Oil and gas
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Electricity
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Coal
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Mining and quarrying
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11827/