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Series
National Coal Board: Secretary's Department: Colliery Files
Catalogue reference: COAL 89
What's it about?
COAL 89
This series of colliery files from the National Coal Board contains information on the reconstruction and planning of individual 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)
- COAL 89
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board: Secretary's Department: Colliery Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1947-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series of colliery files from the National Coal Board contains information on the reconstruction and planning of individual mines.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Alphabetical by colliery
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- National Coal Board, Secretarys Department, 1947-1987
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 474 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
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1998 British Coal Corporation
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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)
- No future accruals expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5337/
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