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Mines Departments and Successors: Coal Division: Fuel and Lighting Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: POWE 18
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POWE 18
Files relating to Local Fuel Overseers, rationing, distribution and control of supplies and miners' concessionary coal. Until 1942 these are records of the Mines Department.
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 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- Mines Departments and Successors: Coal Division: Fuel and Lighting Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files relating to Local Fuel Overseers, rationing, distribution and control of supplies and miners' concessionary coal. Until 1942 these are records of the Mines Department.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further records on coal control see
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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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- Mines Department, 1920-1942
- Ministry of Fuel and Power, Coal Division, 1942-1957
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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64 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
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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
- Coal
- Rationing
- Mining and quarrying
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A History of the Gas Industry (Unpublished) (Cabinet Office ref: CAB/HIST/G/1/1/2)
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Papers referred to in the following official histories will be found in POWE 17, POWE 18, POWE 19, POWE 20, POWE 21, POWE 22:Prof. W.H.B. Court, A History of Coal (HMSO, 1951)C.I. Savage, A History of Inland Transport (H.M.S.O.1957)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11835/
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Mines Departments and Successors: Coal Division: Fuel and Lighting Correspondence and Papers
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