British Coal Explained

British Coal Corporation
Predecessor:	National Coal Board
Successor:	Coal Authority
Status:	Statutory corporation
Products:	Coal
Owner:	UK Government
Headquarters:	Hobart House, Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7AE
Leader Title:	Chairman
Leader Name:	Sir Robert Haslam Neil Clarke) Philip Hutchinson Mike Atkinson Peter Mason

The British Coal Corporation was a nationalised corporation responsible for the mining of coal in the United Kingdom from 1987 until it was effectively dissolved in 1997. The corporation was created by renaming its predecessor, the National Coal Board (NCB).

History

Short Title:	Coal Industry Act 1987
Type:	Act
Parliament:	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:	An Act to change the name of the National Coal Board to the British Coal Corporation; to make new provision with respect to grants by the Secretary of State to the Corporation; to make provision for securing further participation by organisations representing employees in the coal industry in the management of trusts and other bodies connected with that industry and in the management of superannuation schemes for such employees; and for other purposes connected therewith.
Year:	1987
Citation:	1987 c. 3
Royal Assent:	5 March 1987
Original Text:	https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/3/enacted
Use New Uk-Leg:	yes
Uk-Leg Title:	Coal Industry Act 1987
Collapsed:	yes

The (c. 3) changed the name of the National Coal Board (NCB) to the British Coal Corporation. With the passing of the Coal Industry Act 1994, the 16th and last Coal Industry Act, the industry-wide administrative functions of British Coal were transferred to the new Coal Authority from 31 October 1994.^{[1] [2]}

All economic assets were privatised. The English mining operations were merged with RJB Mining to form UK Coal, a monopoly. British Coal continued as a separate organisation until 31 December 1997, after which it was run as a residual legal entity by staff within the Coal Directorate of the Department of Trade and Industry,^{[3] [4]} eventually being dissolved on 27 March 2004.^{[5] [6]}

List of collieries

British Coal Corporation collieries operating in 1994^[7] !Colliery!!Location

Longannet	Fife
Point of Ayr	Flintshire
Kellingley	Yorkshire
Maltby	Yorkshire
Prince of Wales	Yorkshire
North Selby	Yorkshire
Riccall	Yorkshire
Stillingfleet	Yorkshire
Wistow	Yorkshire
Whitemoor	Yorkshire
Bilsthorpe	Nottinghamshire
Harworth	Nottinghamshire
Thoresby	Nottinghamshire
Welbeck	Nottinghamshire
Daw Mill	Warwickshire
Asfordby	Leicestershire

See also

• Coal mining in the United Kingdom
• History of coal mining in the United Kingdom
• National Coal Board
• Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom

References

Further reading

• Anderson, D. Coal: a pictorial history of the British coal industry (1982), 104pp; online, includes hundreds of photographs and a detailed chronology
• Book: Ashworth . William . Mark . Pegg . History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 5: 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry . 1986 . Oxford University Press. online
• Book: Brady, Robert A. . Crisis in Britain. Plans and Achievements of the Labour Government. registration. 1950. University of California Press . 77–131.

External links

• Catalogue of the British Coal operational research archives — at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick.

Notes and References

1. act . 1994 . 21 . Coal Industry Act 1994 . 5 July 1994 . 5 May 2016.
2. si . 1994 . 2553 . The Coal Industry (Restructuring Date) Order 1994 . 29 September 1994.
3. Web site: House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 5 Feb 1998 (pt 18). UK Parliament . 5 Feb 1998 .
4. House of Commons . Public Bodies (Chairmen) . 10 April 2002.
5. si . 2004 . 144 . The Coal Industry Act 1994 (Commencement No.7) and Dissolution of the British Coal Corporation Order 2004 . 3 . 22 January 2004.
6. News: British Coal sell-off nearing completion . The Independent . 23 July 1996.
7. Book: The British Economy in Transition. limited. Royce Logan Turner. Routledge. 1995. 9780415111140. 23.