Daily Herald Photograph: Ministry of Fuel and Power's Experimental training centre

Photograph of Ministry of Fuel and Power's Experimental Training Centre for Juvenile entrants to the pits, taken by Johnston of Newcastle, 12 May 1947. Caption on back reads: 'Ministry of Fuel and Power's experimental training centre for juvenile entrants to the pits, at New Kyo, near Stanley, which is the first of its kind on Britain. 120 boys from all over Co. Durham will receive training in school and down the pit. P.S. Boys are interested in the leather helmets issued to them'. Gelatin silver print.