Daily Herald Photograph: Bevin Boys SMG00345939_0001

One photograph of a young man looking at his mining gear titled 'First of Bevin's Boys arrive at the pits'. Caption of back reads: 'The first of the new conscripts arrived at a durham coalmine yesterday to start their new careers at the pits. They received a warm welcome and spent their first day looking round and receiving their equipment. William Robert Page of Grange Town, Middlesboro (19 years old) who was a fitter's apprentice, rather ruefully surveys his new pit apparell'. Includes crop marks.