National Coal Board
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The National Coal Board was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over
Brick made at NCB Sherwood
No. 29 ready for duty at Philadelphia NCB shed
Former NCB houses in Pontefract.
Bickershaw Colliery
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Bickershaw Colliery was a coal mine, located on Plank Lane in Leigh, then within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England.
Bickershaw Colliery, shortly before closure, August 1990
A National Coal Board Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST No 63.000.326 (works number 3776 of 1952) hauls ten loaded "Merry-go-round" coal hopper wagons from Bickershaw Colliery to the exchange sidings, 18 August 1983
An NCB Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST awaits its next duties at Bickershaw Colliery, 18 August 1983
Wigan Town Hall