National Coal Board

1884-1997: central administrative records and of related bodies

1636-1992: Divisional and area records. North Staffordshire: financial and production records, property records, colliery photographs, plans; Cannock Chase: property and public relations records, colliery photographs, plans; South Staffordshire and Shropshire: property records, photographs of collieries; Opencast Executive records incl applications for opencast coal sites in Staffordshire; pre-vesting records of individual colliery companies incl corporate, shareholding, financial, production, sales, staff, property, public relations and photographs; pre-vesting records of colliery owners organisations incl minutes, financial records, corresp, subscription books, maintenance fund records; pre-vesting records of joint owners and workers organisations incl minutes and financial records; pre-vesting records of workers organisations rel to South Staffordshire Association of Colliery Managers and the National Association of Colliery Managers

1779-1980: Cumberland colliery plans incl rel to William pit and Walkmill colliery no 2 pit, Haig Colliery main band seam action plan, map of Pica Opencast Coal workings & compulsory rights order

19th-20th cent: Derbys area: maps

1845-1981: North East bore-hole records, for collieries and pre and post nationalisation

1846-1859: records relating to Bedlington and Netherton

1870-1989: Derbys area: misc papers rel to various collieries, incl some pre-nationalisation

1873-1990: records incl colliery tip plans, plans of colliery pit-head baths and other surface buildings, maps of coal seams in the South Wales Coalfield, files from the National Coal Board South Wales Area rel to collieries in West Glamorgan, records of accidents at South Wales collieries and compensation paid, National Coal Board Scientific Reports, deeds and documents relating to collieries in South Wales before nationalisation

1887-1986: North East Division (Yorkshire): NCB apprenticeship scheme records, record of seams worked, accident book, sinking book, collieries tenants agreement, letting book, colliery rating book, reports of weekly inspections, financial records, minutes, coal analysis book, order books, corresp, horses employed record book

1895-1992: North Western Division: colliery profit and loss accounts, misc records

20th cent: administrative records, plans

c1900-1999: records rel to Durham collieries

20th cent: East Midlands division: accounts, corresp, statistics and papers rel to labour relations

1904-1960: Yorkshire Colliery Division: Crigglestone Coking Plant: records

1904-2006: South West Durham area, Chief Mechanical Engineer's records: photographs, reports, maps and plans rel to various collieries, incl Rainton, Sherburn Hill, Easington, Fishburn, Brancepeth and Kimblesworth collieries

1906-1946: additional records

1911-1950: Kent records

1911-2003: records rel to Wheldale colliery, National Coal Board Secretariat, Thornhill coking plant, Shawcross colliery, Pope & Pearson Ltd and the Coal Authority

c1913-1929: Derbyshire: pre-National Coal Board: scaling book for Ilkeston are collieries (c1920-1929) and papers on industrial dispute at Denby Drury Lowe Colliery (1913)

1918-1979: additional records incl annual reports

1921-1977: North East Area Headquarters, Surveyors' Department: plans rel to Seaham, Vane Tempest, Haswell and Murton collieries

c1930-1970: reports and surveys relating to collieries in Forest of Dean, Bristol and Somerset coalfields

c1930-1970: files and reports from South Wales region relating to mining in Forest of Dean, Bristol and Somerset coal fields

c1930-1982: East Midland Division: South Notts area records

1933-1991: reports and records relating to Forest of Dean and South Gloucestershire collieries

1939-1981: East Midlands Division: North and South Notts area photographic archives

1940-1962: records rel to assets and employees

1944-1973: housing register for Doncaster

c1945-1967: medical reports on accidents to employees

1945-1967: Derbys area: medical corresp, reports and papers

1947-1959: East Midlands Division: wage cost calculations, profit and loss accounts

1947-1960: regional profit and loss accounts and other financial records

1947-1965: journal

1947-1965: corresp rel to transportation of coal between the National Coal Board, Ashington Group of Collieries and British Railways

c1947-1975: North Western division: Burnley area colliery records

1948-1972: Somerset and Bristol Group: cash ledgers

1948-1973: North Eastern Division: maps and plans of abandoned mines in Wakefield, Leeds and Barnsley

c1950-1960: East Midlands Division No3 Area: records incl reports, surveys and plans

1950-1967: Aberfan disaster inquiry papers

c1950-1999: Durham division mining plans rel to West Auckland, Brussleton, Dene, Nettlesworth, Staindrop; records rel to safety inspections

1951-1953: report and accounts

1951-1955: Field Investigation Group reports

1954: Cotgrave Colliery: commemorative booklet for the official inauguration of the sinking and development of the colliery

1955-1992: Durham collieries: Public Relations Office files

1956: notebook

c1956-1979: South Western Division: project files and colliery photographs

1958-1970: reports of veterinary surgeons; records of horses employed at Brenkley Drift

1958-1994: misc papers rel to Markham Colliery, Derbys

c1960: Northumberland area: photographs

c1960: seam plans of Stobswood colliery incl Yard Seam, Five Quarter Seam, New Seam, Plessey Seam, Three Quarter or Bottom Main Seam, Tilley Seam, Bottom Beaumont Seam and Top Beaumont Seam

c1960-1969: South Notts area: plans

c1965: Northumberland Area: digital photographs of various collieries

1965: Scientific Department records

1965-1977: photographs rel to sites across Shropshire

1965-1983: Engineers Department, North East Area: engineering drawings

1965-1986: North East Area: Engineers Department records

1966: volume of photographs, probably taken by the National Coal Board

1966-1970: claims records re Aberfan disaster

1967-1968: corresp

c1970-1979: coal spoil reports sent to the Welsh Office

1970-1982: Barnsley area: Report 'Riddings Drift A New Mine' and directory of organisation

1972-1973: Fenwick colliery records

1974-1986: additional records incl payslips and publicity material

1976-1985: File of correspondence between Torfaen Borough Coucnil and the NCB Estates Dept. concerning the Blaenavon Local Plan

1976-1986: Selby coalfield: records incl photographs and press cuttings

1978-1979: Pica colliery application and inquiry papers with corresp and plan

2002: draft of mining history of the National Coal Board (1960-1980) by Donald Hindson

East Kent records

plans for Birchmoor and Pooley Hall Collieries

research notes, slides, photographs, and plans collected by Colin Mountford