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Theres a look of keen anticipation on the faces of these Bevin Boys about to make their first descent of the Moirrison Pit. 19th January 1944
Boy trainees get their lamps before going below to the Ashington Colliery Companys underground school. 30th April 1942
A photograph of a group of Bevin Boy miners receiving their equipment on their first day at Askern Coliiery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Harnessing this pony at Ashington Colliery are some of the boys who are being trained under a newly instituted scheme. 17th June 1941
An instructor at the Government pit school showing Bevin Boys how to follow a seam of coal in Morrison Old Pit, Annefield Plain. 30th December 1943
Langley pit lads in September, 1943
Eighteen year old John Hewetson formerly of St Bees school in Cumberland pictured after arriving at the miners training centre at Swinton, Lancashire during the Second World War January 1944
Glyn Hamblyn of Dinas, Rhondda - 14 year old Pit worker. June 1943 P018196
Coal Miners boys. June 1942 P018192
Pupils at a special training school for boys at Pelaw Main Betty Pit, near Birtley, learn about the care of pit ponies during a lesson given by W. Adamson in 1942
Ashington mothers who went down the pit to see conditions for themselves are shown here in the trainees gallery with two trainees and their pony
The practice of using young boys down the pits was abolished earlier this century. These young boys were still at school but were taken down a coal mine to learn about the workings of a pit
