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Post by Wheldale on Oct 23, 2012 13:25:59 GMT -5
When British Coal was privatised, apart from the collieries and land, was anything else sold off as a going concern?
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Post by tygwyn on Oct 23, 2012 15:27:24 GMT -5
Houses,unless the NCB sold them all to the occupiers before they became BC.
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Post by edwinovich on Apr 29, 2017 1:45:52 GMT -5
I can see this thread is old but maybe the following will add some information. Houses were sold off very much earlier.... at and around the time of the strike. The, then, Chairman McGregor put out the proclamation that we should 'stick to the knitting' and gave Estates the command to dispose as quickly as possible. At or before privatisation, everything was sold or closed: British Mining Consultants was sold in 1992. Bretby and the testing function had gone earlier too. Estates were busy selling various land holdings that didn't go with the mines. Even the Occupational Health function (nurses and doctors) was privatised. British Coal Enterprise (the job-creation function) was privatised in 1996 and was probably just about the last thing to go. |
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