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National Coal Board: Guides to the Collieries
Catalogue reference: COAL 103
What's it about?
COAL 103
The guides to the collieries (coalfields from 1951) give details of the structure of the National Coal Board's organisation including names of members of staff at Headquarters (with nominal indexes from 1949). Information concerning the structure...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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COAL 103
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Guides to the Collieries
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Date (When the record was created)
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1948-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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The guides to the collieries (coalfields from 1951) give details of the structure of the National Coal Board's organisation including names of members of staff at Headquarters (with nominal indexes from 1949).
Information concerning the structure of the Divisional organisation is also included. This is further refined to include information about Areas and Sub-Areas. There is detailed information about the collieries in each area including: type of mineral extracted arranged by quantity, and if coal, the type, the names of the seams, the numbers of men employed above and below ground, whether electricity is used underground for lighting or power, the names of the manager and the number and class of certificates held and the appropriate inspectorate division (with place names indexes from 1949).
Key maps are located at the end of the section on each Division and more detailed maps showing the locations of collieries are found throughout the guides.
Later volumes provide information about opencast mining, guides to suppliers and licensed mines.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged in chronological order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Directories are to be found in COAL 3
Annual reports are to be found in COAL 22
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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)
- National Coal Board, 1946-1986
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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44 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2004 National Coal Board
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Records transferred to The National Archives from NCB Library (date unknown).
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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A complete set of guides has been preserved although those for some years are missing. Collection themes 2.2.1 Policy and administrative processes of the state, 2.2.2 Interaction of the state with its citizens and its impact on the physical environment apply.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16300/
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National Coal Board: Guides to the Collieries
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