Date:30th of October 1943
Description:A group of trainee coal miners underground at the Kemball Pit which was situated off Grove Road, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent. Kemball was owned by the Stafford Coal and Iron Company and mined coal and ironstone. It operated as a training pit for "Bevan Boys" in the 1940s and later, after closure in 1963, as a surface training centre. Training finished in 1989. The land was cleared as part of the A50 road development and the colliery site is now a hotel.
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Mr Tom Smith, M.P., formally opening the gate at the head of the Kemball Pit off Grove Road, Fenton, ...
A group of trainee coal miners with their instructors at Kemball Pit which was situated off Grove Road, ...
North Staffs Colliery training scheme at Kemball pit doring the Second World War. It is interesting ...
A group of trainee coal miners underground at the Kemball Pit which was situated off Grove Road, Fenton, ...
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Source: Staffordshire County Record Office
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