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Bevin Boy: A Reluctant Miner
This is the personal story of a Bevin Boy, one of the band of boys recruited by Ernest Bevin during the Second World War to work in the coal mines.
I would have volunteered anyway but the alternative could be that I would be “
called up” to be a “Bevin Boy.” A “Bevin Boy.” Some of you may wonder what's or
what was a “Bevin Boy.”Well, there was this bloke in the Government called
Ernest ...
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Blood, Sweat, and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, ...
Finally, in January 1944, the so-called 'Bevin Boy' scheme was introduced which
drafted men of military age (regardless of social background) into the mines.96
They were chosen by ballot and very few exceptions were permitted.
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Voices in the Dark: Pony Talk and Mining Tales
CHEEKY COCKNEY BEVIN BOY We had a fair number of Bevin Boys at Chilton
Colliery who came from London and the Southern region. One cheeky Cockney
who wouldn't move from his job at the bottom of the shaft made all the lads laugh.
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Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations ...
Well, technically, I wasn't a Bevin Boy because I wasn't conscripted into the mines
but volunteered for underground service when I registered for National Service in
August 1944 because at thatjuncture it seemed the most useful thing to do.
John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson, 2007
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Mining in the East Midlands 1550-1947
The Bevin Boy scheme was designed to produce 50,000 mining entrants in 1944
but it produced only 15, 000 in that year and 5,900 in the next. The scheme was
abandoned with the end of the war.27 The introduction of 'optants' and 'Bevin ...
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Conscription in Britain, 1939-1964: The Militarisation of a ...
15 Taylor, Warwick, The Forgotten Conscript: A History of the Bevin Boy,
Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1995, p.83. 16 Day, David, The Bevin Boy, Kineton:
Roundwood Press, 1975, p.10. 17 Day, op. cit., p. 16. 18 Court, op. cit., p. 3 14.
19 Bullock ...
He became what is often known as one of the forgotten conscripts; a Bevin Boy.
This was not, in any sense, being gay; there was nothing gay about or even in the
war efforts. He was an underground miner forming part of the 1943-1948 war ...
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The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and ...
The Forgotten Conscript: A History of the Bevin Boy. Bishop Auckland, UK:
Pentland Press, 1995. Bilbo, Theodore A former governor of Mississippi,
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877–1947) served as a U.S. senator accused of
corruption and ...
James Ciment, Thaddeus Russell, 2007
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The Bleak Midwinter, 1947
21 Life as a Bevin Boy is described autobiographically in David Day, The Bevin
Boy (1975). 22 Court, Coal, p. 389. 23 The pattern of distribution is revealed in
CSO, Statistical Digest, table 74: see also Court, Coal, pp. 387-8. 24 Mitchell and
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10 NOTIZIE DOVE SI INCLUDE IL TERMINE «BEVIN BOY»
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Veteran lays wreath at VE commemoration
... Guiseley branch of the British Legion and was presented with a ceremonial stole by George Robertson, a former Bevin Boy and Chairman of ... «Wharfedale Observer, mag 15»
Super Sex Fiends
... discharged from his National Service after suffering spinal injuries whilst working in the coal mines as a 'Bevin Boy',” the scientist explained. «The Sleaze, mag 15»
Sussex Police mishandled woman's complaint about Jimmy Savile …
... badge from Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Downing Street in London for his work as a 'Bevin Boy'. Picture date: Tuesday 25th March, 2008. «Eastbourne Herald, mag 15»
Life underground with Second World War's forgotten Bevin Boy
The armed forces are credited as the key figures of Britain's Second World War effort; conscripted to help, they ensured the nation's safety. «Horncastle News, apr 15»
Bill Bowyer
Moreover, he spent some of the Second World War working underground as a Bevin Boy, an experience. Subscribe now. Login. Already a ... «The Times, mar 15»
Tribute to the late Ron Humberstone - Sheffield and South Yorkshire …
... Grammar Schoolboy Ron first worked in the mines, but was denied his wish to go fight in World War 2, being conscripted as a Bevin Boy. «The Star, mar 15»
Alan Flint, former Mayor of Wimborne dies
... was born in 1954, died four years later of leukaemia. Mr Flint led a very varied life. A Bevin Boy, he went on to serve in the Royal Air Force. «Blackmore Vale Magazine, feb 15»
Entertainer who starred in TV and film dies aged 88
Away from entertaining, he spent time in the Coal Mine in Askern, South Yorkshire as a Bevin Boy for his war service and worked in the office of ... «Eastbourne Herald, gen 15»
Post memories: Chadwell Heath cobbler who saw brother blown …
Alf spent the majority of his working life as a master shoe repairer, first for his father and then, after spending the war years as a Bevin Boy and ... «Barking and Dagenham Post, gen 15»
Sheffield United: Furniss and Collindridge remember the Blades last …
“We were all very good friends,” Furniss, the former full-back and Bevin Boy, said. “There was a snooker table at the ground and I became quite ... «The Star, nov 14»
