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ZB

Your data is a touch off course.
When the mines were nationalised the NCB took control of 958 underground mines and 60 surface mines employing 708,000 people and producing 200 million tons of coal. Mines employing 25 or fewer were left in the private sector.
In 1979 when Mrs. Thatcher came into office there were 219 underground mines and 106 surface mines employing 235,000 people and producing 123 million tons of coal. When she left office at the end of 1990 there were
104 underground mines and 130 surface mines producing 94 million tons of coal and employing 66,000 people.
In 1947 it took 708,000 people to mine 190 million tons of deep mined coal.
In 1990 it took 55,000 people to mine 75 million tons of deep mined coal.
Pit closures by PM and number per year in office,
Attlee 101 - 25 per year. Churchill 78 - 19. Eden 35 - 17. McMillan 246 - 41. Home 24 - 24. Wilson 235 - 39. Heath 26 - 6. Wilson 18 - 3. Callaghan 4 - 1. Thatcher 115 - 10. Major 55 - 8. Blair 12 - 1, Brown 1 - /. Cameron 5 - 1.