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Emily Capper and the 1934 Gresford Colliery disaster
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Division
Medical and Welfare Services Records
Catalogue reference: Division within COAL
What's it about?
Division within COAL
Medical and Welfare Services Records relating to medical treatment and housing provided by the National Coal Board.Comprises Medical Department records in COAL 43 and housing association records in COAL 66
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within COAL
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Title (The name of the record)
- Medical and Welfare Services Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1907-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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Medical and Welfare Services Records relating to medical treatment and housing provided by the National Coal Board.
Comprises Medical Department records in COAL 43 and housing association records in COAL 66
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files of the Miners' Welfare Committee and Commission are in BX 3
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 series
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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
- Medicine
- Mining and quarrying
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1291/
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131,483 records
Within the department: COAL
Records created or inherited by the National Coal Board, and of related bodies
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Medical and Welfare Services Records
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