Hi Daz
North Staffordshire Coalfield, We are a team of history researchers based
in Stoke on Trent and our history starts at the moment, with Vesting day
in 1947 when the Pits were Nationalised visit our site at WWW.stokecoll.ac.uk/NSCFWeb
or the latest updates at Http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/robertburden
my apologises for being cryptic
Bob Burden
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:23:08 EDT
>Reply-To: "The mining-history list." <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Daz Beattie <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Coal Authority, mining heritage
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>
>As an onlooker to this group I find it interesting, informative and perhaps
>because I have no experience in mining history research etc, it has more
>importantly motivated me to look more closely at the mining subjects that
>are
>of interest to me. But I do have a problem with some of the technical
>terminology, abbreviations cause a particular problem, NSCF being one such
>example. Not particularly wanting to show my ignorance or suffer the
>potential jibes I firstly ran a Google search, the number of organisations
>and other users of NSCF is vast, it is not easy to see where National
>Scholastic Chess Foundations or the Nova Scotia Choral Federation play
a
>part
>in Staffordshire coal mining. I appreciate that was a bit facetious, but
>could I ask that for the benefit of myself and perhaps others equally devoid
>of knowledge that where possible abbreviations at least are explained.
Having
>said all that I am guessing that NS is North Staffordshire and the C could
>be
>Coal but the whole defeats me.
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