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Emily Capper and the 1934 Gresford Colliery disaster
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Series
Ministry of Fuel and Power: Coal Division: Opencast Coal Files
Catalogue reference: POWE 40
What's it about?
POWE 40
Files on open cast coal mining covering financial recompense, National Coal Board responsibility and cases in dispute sent to arbitration.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POWE 40
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Fuel and Power: Coal Division: Opencast Coal Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files on open cast coal mining covering financial recompense, National Coal Board responsibility and cases in dispute sent to arbitration.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Ministry of Fuel and Power, Coal Division, 1942-1957
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 file(s)
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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
- Mining and quarrying
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11856/
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