Sir Robert Haslam(1987–1990) Neil Clarke (1991–June 1997) Philip Hutchinson (June 1997–December 1997) Mike Atkinson (1998–2000) Peter Mason (2000–2004)
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).
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.
The 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.[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]
Anderson, D. Coal: a pictorial history of the British coal industry (1982), 104pp; online, includes hundreds of photographs and a detailed chronology
Ashworth, William; Pegg, Mark (1986). History of the British Coal Industry: Volume 5: 1946-1982: The Nationalized Industry. Oxford University Press. online
