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Board of Trade and Successors: Coal Division: Production: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: POWE 22
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POWE 22
Includes files concerned with administration and legislation, coal and mineral rights, finance, other fuels, labour relations, mechanization, metalliferous mining subsidence, drainage schemes and sterilization. These are records of the Board of...
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POWE 22
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and Successors: Coal Division: Production: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1913-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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Includes files concerned with administration and legislation, coal and mineral rights, finance, other fuels, labour relations, mechanization, metalliferous mining subsidence, drainage schemes and sterilization. These are records of the Board of Trade Coal Mines Department until 1920, then of the Mines Department until 1942, and thereafter of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Also contains a few records of the petroleum departments.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- Board of Trade, 1786-1970
- Mines Department, 1920-1942
- Ministry of Fuel and Power, Coal Division, 1942-1957
- Ministry of Power, Coal Division, 1957-1969
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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264 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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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/C11839/
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Board of Trade and Successors: Coal Division: Production: Correspondence and Papers
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