British Coal
{{Short description|Defunct British state-owned fossil fuel producer}}
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{{Infobox organization
| name = British Coal Corporation
| image = British Coal.svg
| predecessor = National Coal Board
| successor = Coal Authority
| formation = {{start date and age|1987|3|5|df=y}}
| dissolved = {{end date and age|2004|03|27|df=y}}
| status = Statutory corporation
| products = Coal
| owner = UK Government
| headquarters = Hobart House, Grosvenor Place, London SW1X 7AE
| leader_title = Chairman
| leader_name = Sir Robert Haslam {{small|(1987{{ndash}}1990)}}
Neil Clarke {{small|(1991{{ndash}}June 1997}})
Philip Hutchinson {{small|(June 1997{{ndash}}December 1997)}}
Mike Atkinson {{small|(1998{{ndash}}2000)}}
Peter Mason {{small|(2000{{ndash}}2004)}}
}}
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
{{Infobox UK legislation
| 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
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| royal_assent = 5 March 1987
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| original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/3/enacted
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The {{visible anchor|Coal Industry Act 1987}} (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.{{cite legislation UK |type=act |year=1994 |chapter=21 |act=Coal Industry Act 1994 |section= |date=5 July 1994 |accessdate=5 May 2016}}{{Cite legislation UK |type=si |year=1994 |number=2553 |si=The Coal Industry (Restructuring Date) Order 1994 |section= |date=29 September 1994}}
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,{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980205/text/80205w18.htm |publisher=UK Parliament |date=5 Feb 1998 |title=House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 5 Feb 1998 (pt 18)}}{{cite Hansard |house=House of Commons |title=Public Bodies (Chairmen) |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2002-04-10/debates/8b58e03d-fd6c-471f-b3b4-7e946033abc8/PublicBodies(Chairmen) |date=10 April 2002}} eventually being dissolved on 27 March 2004.{{Cite legislation UK |type=si |year=2004 |number=144 |si=The Coal Industry Act 1994 (Commencement No.7) and Dissolution of the British Coal Corporation Order 2004 |section=3 |date=22 January 2004}}{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/british-coal-selloff-nearing-completion-1330271.html |work=The Independent |title=British Coal sell-off nearing completion |date=23 July 1996}}
List of collieries
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|+British Coal Corporation collieries operating in 1994{{cite book|title=The British Economy in Transition|url=https://archive.org/details/britisheconomytr00turn|url-access=limited|author=Royce Logan Turner|publisher=Routledge|year=1995|isbn= 9780415111140|page=[https://archive.org/details/britisheconomytr00turn/page/n37 23]}} !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
References
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=Further reading=
- Anderson, D. Coal: a pictorial history of the British coal industry (1982), 104pp; [https://archive.org/details/coalpictorialhis0000ande online], includes hundreds of photographs and a detailed chronology
- {{cite book |last1=Ashworth |first1=William |first2=Mark |last2=Pegg |title=History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 5: 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry |date=1986 |publisher=Oxford University Press}} [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000unse_n7l6 online]
- {{cite book |last=Brady |first=Robert A. |title=Crisis in Britain. Plans and Achievements of the Labour Government|url=https://archive.org/details/crisisinbritainp0000brad|url-access=registration|year=1950|publisher=University of California Press |pages=77–131}}
External links
- [http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=DServeadv.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28%28text%29%3D%27british%20coal%27%29AND%28Level%3D%27collection%27%29%29 Catalogue of the British Coal operational research archives] {{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} — at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick.
Category:Coal companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Defunct mining companies of the United Kingdom
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Category:Non-renewable resource companies established in 1946
Category:Non-renewable resource companies established in 1987
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Category:British companies established in 1987
Category:1997 disestablishments in the United Kingdom