Records of the Lanarkshire Coal Masters' Association, Lanarkshire, Scotland

• Minutes 1886-1954
• Annual reports 1887-1953

The Lanarkshire Coal Masters' Association was established in 1886  in Glasgow, Scotland, to regulate wages 'in accordance with the state of trade and matters relative thereto'. Membership of the association was open to colliery owners who owned coal mines within Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was managed by an executive committee, which existed of the following annually elected officers: a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and treasurer and representatives from the eight districts into which Lanarkshire was divided. The association held its meeting in Buchanan Street, Glasgow, before moving to the National Coal Board's buildings in Wellington Street, Glasgow, in 1931.

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GB 234 CB8 Records of Lanarkshire Coal Masters' Association 1886-1947 (National Archives of Scotland)

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Church, Roy,The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. 3 1830-1913: Victorian Pre-eminence(Oxford, 1996)

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Revised by David Powell, Hub Project Archivist, 7 May 2002