One photograph of the Ministry of Fuel and Power's Experimental Training Centre for Juvenile entrants to the pits by Johnston of Newcastle, 12 May 1947. Caption on back reads: 'Opening Ministry of Fuel & Power's Experimental training Centre for Juvenile entrants to the pits, at New Kyo, near Stanley, today, which is the first of its kind in Britain. 120 boys from all over Co. Durham will receive training in school and down the pit. P.S. Some of the boys arriving at the Morrison Pit where they will do thirteen weeks training'. Gelatin silver print.
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