Focus on
Emily Capper and the 1934 Gresford Colliery disaster
Our records tell the story of Emily Capper's desperate campaign to recover the bodies of the victims, including that of her son.
Series
National Coal Board: Estates Branch
Catalogue reference: COAL 45
What's it about?
COAL 45
This series contains records of the National Coal Board Estates Branch including the Coal Industry Housing Association. There is also material created prior to nationalisation, much of which relates to the Regional Valuation Boards.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
-
COAL 45
-
Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Estates Branch
-
Date (When the record was created)
-
1934-1994
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains records of the National Coal Board Estates Branch including the Coal Industry Housing Association. There is also material created prior to nationalisation, much of which relates to the Regional Valuation Boards.
-
Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
-
Arrangement
In date order and then by former reference.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
-
Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
-
English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- National Coal Board, Estates Branch, 1947-1987
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
-
78 file(s)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
-
Subject to 30 year closure
-
Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
-
From 1987 British Coal Corporation
-
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))
-
- Topics
- Coal
- Mining and quarrying
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board became one of the largest owners of real estate in the country. Its holdings at this time included extensive areas of farmland and over 140,000 houses as well as operational land and buildings. The role of the Estates Branch was to manage the surface estates and housing, acquire land for various purposes and dispose of land and property no longer required. The Coal Industry Housing Association was set up by the Estates Branch in 1952 to build 19,842 houses in "manpower deficiency areas" as it was realised that if there were not sufficient houses near the collieries, recruitment and retention of pit workers would soon become a problem.
-
Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For further information on this subject, see William Ashworth, The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. 5, 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry, (Oxford, 1986) cc 10.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5293/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
131,483 records
Within the department: COAL
Records created or inherited by the National Coal Board, and of related bodies
You are currently looking at the series: COAL 45
National Coal Board: Estates Branch
You may be interested in
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.