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HULTON COLLIERY EXPLOSION RELIEF FUND, MANCHESTER
Catalogue reference: M122
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This record is about the HULTON COLLIERY EXPLOSION RELIEF FUND, MANCHESTER dating from 1910-1945.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- M122
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Title (The name of the record)
- HULTON COLLIERY EXPLOSION RELIEF FUND, MANCHESTER
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1910-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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M122/1 MINUTES OF MANCHESTER COMMITTEE
M122/2 CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Manchester Archives and Local Studies
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- <corpname>Hulton Colliery Explosion Relief Fund, General Committee, 1911-, Lancashire</corpname>
- <corpname>Hulton Colliery Explosion Relief Fund, Manchester Committee, 1910-1911, Lancashire</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 334 files
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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These papers of the Manchester Committee were passed to the Library by the Town Clerk in Sept. 1971.
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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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On 21 December 1910 344 men and boys were killed in an explosion at the Pretoria Pit, Hulton Colliery.
The Lord Mayors of Manchester and Liverpool and the Mayor of Bolton set up separate Relief Funds, which on 25 Feb. 1911 they agreed should be administered by a General Committee, consisting of themselves, the Mayors of Bury, Wigan and Leigh, the Chairman of Westhoughton U.D.C., twenty nominees of the existing Bolton Committee and ten nominees each of the Liverpool and Manchester Committees. The Mayor of Bolton was made Treasurer and the Town Clerk of Bolton Hon. Sec.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/bce1d777-6288-4499-922d-1e505a334d02/
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HULTON COLLIERY EXPLOSION RELIEF FUND, MANCHESTER