Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of Public Records and Chief Executive of the Public Record Office (PRO), will officially open the Coal Authority's new £820,000 Mining Records Repository, located at its headquarters at 200 Lichfield Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 4RG, at 12.30pm on Tuesday 13 November 2001.
The building, which was constructed to time and budget, took twenty three weeks to erect, and was designed to meet British Standard BS5454, to enable it to be approved by the PRO as a Place of Deposit.
The repository houses in excess of 100,000 abandoned coal mine plans dating back to the 17th Century, which the Authority holds on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive, and these are open for inspection by consultants, contractors, historians and members of the public. The building has two viewing rooms which can be pre-booked by those interested in examining particular plans.
The Coal Authority, located at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was established under the Coal Industry Act 1994, with responsibility for four principal functions: Licensing coal-mining operations; subsidence damage claims which are not the responsibility of the privatised successor companies or other licensed operators; dealing with property and historic liabilities such as old shafts and minewater pumping; and providing public access to information on coal-mining operations past and present.
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