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Bevin Boys meeting the Lord Mayor, Councillor Samuel Hartley Marshall JP and Lady Mayoress, Mrs Marshall, Birley East Mining Training Centre, Woodhouse

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Title:	Bevin Boys meeting the Lord Mayor, Councillor Samuel Hartley Marshall JP and Lady Mayoress, Mrs Marshall, Birley East Mining Training Centre, Woodhouse
Location:	Sheffield_Woodhouse
Date:	1944/02/29
Date Period:	1940-1959
Photographer:	Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
Copyright::	Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
Notes:	This was the first group of 80 Bevin Boys, optants and volunteers to the centre with their training lasting one month. Note: Bevin Boys were young men conscripted to work in coal mines between December 1943 and March 1948 to increase the rate of coal production. From Samuel Hartley Marshall’s mayoral photograph album (Sheffield City Archives: X487/1)
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