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Series
National Coal Board: Registration of Assets: Licences for Small Mines Files
Catalogue reference: COAL 35
What's it about?
COAL 35
The series contains a selection of registered files of the National Coal Board containing policy and other general matters relating to the issue of licences to operate small mines.
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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COAL 35
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Registration of Assets: Licences for Small Mines Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1946-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains a selection of registered files of the National Coal Board containing policy and other general matters relating to the issue of licences to operate small mines.
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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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354 file(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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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The provisions of Section 36 of the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 stipulated the circumstances under which the National Coal Board may grant licences to other persons to work coal from small mines.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5283/
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National Coal Board: Registration of Assets: Licences for Small Mines Files
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