Semi-Official Records

The Semi-official category brings together the records of several types of different administrative organisations, including poor law unions, hospitals, collieries and the Inland Revenue.

Semi-official collections

Central Electricity Generating Board

Reference: SO/CEGB
Coverage: 1953 - 1967
Series of agreements, largely relating to equipment and machinery, of the Central Electricity Generating Board (formerly the British Electricity Authority; Central Electricity Authority).

Colliery records

Reference: SO/NCB
Coverage: late 19th - 20th centuries

Court of Sewers

Reference: SO/CS
Coverage: 17th - 20th centuries; mainly 18th century
Minute books, warrants, agreements and correspondence relating to drainage.

Forest records

Reference: SO/FR
Coverage: 17th - 18th centuries
Short series of documents relating to administration and surveying of Sherwood Forest.

Gas Company records

Reference: SO/GB
Coverage: 19th - 20th centuries
Two minute books of the Worksop Gas Company; minute book of the Misterton and West Stockwith Gas Company; accounts book of the Tuxford Gas Company.

Health and Safety Executive

Reference: SO/HSE
Coverage: 1875 - 1969
Series of plans of abandoned non-coal mines.

Health Organisations

Reference: SO/NH
Coverage: from 1899
Administrative and financial records of: Nottinghamshire Insurance Committee; Nottinghamshire Care Association for Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases; Nottinghamshire branch of the British Social Hygiene Council; Nottingham County and City Executive Committee; Nottinghamshire Family Health Services Authority.

There are closure periods of thirty years on some Health Organisations Records, so that records created within the last thirty years are not available for consultation without authorisation. Contact us for more information.

Hospital records

Reference: SO/HO
Coverage: 19th - 20th centuries

Inland Revenue

Reference: SO/IN
Coverage: 18th - 20th centuries

Nottingham Prison

Reference: SO/PN
Coverage: 1911 - 1956
Small series of Governors' journals, registers and photographs.

Poor Law Union records

Reference: SO/PU
Coverage: 1834 - 1930
Including records of workhouses.

Turnpike Trusts

Reference: SO/TT
Coverage: 18th - 19th centuries
Records relating to new roads, including Acts of Parliament, deeds and minute books. Deposited plans of roads have been transferred to the Courts archive group.

Water Authority

Reference: SO/WA
Coverage: 1926 - 1959
Three minute books relating to meetings of the Sherwood Area Water Authorities, including minutes of the Technical sub-committee.