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Series
National Coal Board: Registration of Assets: Registration Files
Catalogue reference: COAL 36
What's it about?
COAL 36
This series contains a selection of files of the National Coal Board dealing with the take-over and registration of assets of collieries and colliery companies under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946. The registration files were the main...
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 36
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Registration of Assets: Registration Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1946-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a selection of files of the National Coal Board dealing with the take-over and registration of assets of collieries and colliery companies under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946. The registration files were the main series created in dealing with the take-over and registration of assets.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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A cataloguing project to provide descriptions to previously uncatalogued material in this series was completed in January 2009.
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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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1019 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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(pieces 123-1003 and 1004-1019) in 1998. British Coal Corporation
(pieces 1-122) in 1979. 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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- Topics
- Coal
- Mining and quarrying
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are expected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5284/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: COAL
Records created or inherited by the National Coal Board, and of related bodies
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National Coal Board: Registration of Assets: Registration Files
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