| Description | Includes: loose minutes and agendas of Baggeridge Colliery Ltd [1935 - 1943] with references to the war situation e.g. War Emergency Assistance Scheme, the War Damage Act, the post-war policy for the mining industry and National Defence Contributions. The correspondence includes letters and replies to the Chairman and Directors, including reference to fire-watching at Ednam house [1941]; horticultural show [1941]; fatal accidents [1941]; the theft of coal by an employee [1932]; the River Severn Development Association [1932]; Dudley Corporation Destructor [1932]; various appointments, notices of resignation, etc.; Royal Jubilee bonus [1935]; subscription for leaving presentation of Rev. A. H. Messiter of Kingswinford [1935]; and sale of Sandwell Park Colliery [1934]. Also includes printed pamphlet by the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission on Colliery Amalgamations (Preliminary notes on the application of Part II of the Coal Mines Act, 1930, to the Coalfields of Great Britain) and notes in connection with the visit of the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission to Birmingham [Jul 1931]; Report on the Proposed Brickworks to Consume Pit Debris by F. Bernard Clark and related correspondence [1934]. |