Official report of the Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons about the supply report (including a question by [Edward] Pickersgill to WSC on payment for the Metropolitan Police sent to the riots at Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales) and the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill. See CHAR 12/9/121 and CHAR 12/9/122.

Letter from Charles Masterman [Under Secretary of State, Home Office] (Selsey, West Sussex) to WSC marked "private" recommending a delay in the Mines Bill in order that "Hunter and Freddie" have time to prepare the technical and controversial clauses of the bill. In the postscript he thanks WSC for his support "in a time which seems now like a nightmare". Signed manuscript.

Letter from Lord Knollys [Private Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC congratulating him on behalf of the King for the carrying of the second reading of the Coal Mines Bill, which the King hopes will be passed in the present parliamentary session. Signed manuscript.

Reports and correspondence between Gridley, John Eaton Griffith [Chairman of the European Coal Organisation] and John Taylor [British Commercial Counsellor, Prague] on Gridley's visit to Prague to try and persuade the Czechs to join the European Coal Organisation.

Letters and telegrams from Gridley to John Eaton Griffith [Chairman of the European Coal Organisation] and Sir Nigel Ronald [Assistant Under-Secretary, Foreign Office] and telegrams between the Foreign Office and British Embassy in Warsaw on Gridley's visit to Warsaw and a coal convention at Katowice to help persuade the Poles to join the European Coal Organisation.

Reports by Gridley on his visit to Warsaw and a coal convention at Katowice to help persuade the Poles to join the European Coal Organisation. Includes lists of ECO contracts with other Eastern European countries and reports on Polish coal production.

Briefings and arrangements for a visit to the Northern region, Tyneside and Sunderland, including the Swan Hunter shipyard, Tyneside and Woodhorn Colliery Museum and Blyth Valley civic centre [Northumberland]. Also includes rough notes of a meeting with the British Labour Group on the first anniversary of the European elections.

Mainly National Coal Board photographs from NK’s visit to the mine at Tondu [Wales], 1985, also including a visit to Metrolite Industries, Wigan [Lancashire] and Sheffield Information Technology Centre [Yorkshire].