Wigan Coal & Iron Co Ltd, iron and steel manufacturers and coal proprietors

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Date:	1860-2000
Places:	Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire Wigan, Lancashire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Metal processing and manufacturing > Steel manufacture \| Metal processing and manufacturing > Iron founding and casting \| Mineral extraction > Fuel extraction \| Mineral extraction > Metal ore extraction
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C110423 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B25693 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1865-1952: corporate and financial records	Tata Steel UK Ltd	HMC list	NRA 36007 Lancashire Steel See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
2	1860-82: draft minutes, reports, accounts, corresp and papers	Archives: Wigan & Leigh	D/DX EL boxes 156-7	NRA 19719 Ellis
3	1867-1930: corporate records, misc corresp and papers	Archives: Wigan & Leigh	D/D HAI	NRA 41242 Lindsay See boxes 3, 14
4	1865-1938: misc corporate records and core plan	Archives: Wigan & Leigh	D/DY WC	NRA 13277 Wigan RO misc
5	20th cent: glass plate slides of sites in Wigan and parts of Kirkless works	Archives: Wigan & Leigh	Acc. 2014/6	See Annual Return 2014
6	1866-1951: letter book, sales books, get records, colliery reports and statistics, wages books, legal and property records	Lancashire Archives	NCWi	NRA 12638 NCB: Lancs
7	1870-96: papers	Lancashire Archives	DDX 127	See Guide, 1985, p165
8	1872-1955: stock book, wages books, misc papers and photographs	Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Barrow	BDB 43	NRA 35756