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Emily Capper and the 1934 Gresford Colliery disaster
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Series
National Coal Board: Minute Series, Collieries
Catalogue reference: COAL 77
What's it about?
COAL 77
This series contains minutes, circulated papers for meetings and other papers of various National Coal Board committees and sub-committees at colliery level.The series was built up as a body of important papers which needed to be accessioned...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- COAL 77
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Minute Series, Collieries
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1875-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains minutes, circulated papers for meetings and other papers of various National Coal Board committees and sub-committees at colliery level.
The series was built up as a body of important papers which needed to be accessioned speedily for reference, mainly for litigation purposes.
The series is artificial in that the records that make it up have been brought together after they passed out of active use.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetical by subject.
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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)
- 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)
- 9155 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
- Litigation
- Coal
- Mining and quarrying
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5325/
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National Coal Board: Minute Series, Collieries
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