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5 unusual facts about British Coal


Arkwright Town

The whole settlement was owned by British Coal and a decision was taken, along with Derbyshire County Council, to transfer ownership of the 52 properties to a housing trust, construct a new settlement of 56 properties to the north of the site affected by methane, and move all the residents.

Cheadle Coalfield

Until the end of deep Coal Mining in Staffordshire during the 1990s, Cheadle was still very much a mining town with a lot of men working at Florence and Hem Heath Collieries and, regular Buses were laid on by British Coal to transport the Cheadle Miners to work in the Potteries Coalfield.

Cinven

Cinven’s funding base originally came solely from three UK pension funds (British Coal, the Railway Industry and Barclays Bank) who remain as important investors.

John McCue

After being demobbed, McCue played as a part-time professional working for the British Coal Corporation as a PT instructor.

MC Pitman

He styles himself as a coal miner, and appears on stage and in videos dressed in a British Coal jacket, a hard hat with a lamp and a flask of tea.



see also

Arthur Pease

Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet (1866–1927), his son, British coal owner and businessman