Apprentices Collection (page 3)

Two top welding students from Cleveland represented the North-East at a national competition in Birmingham. Anthony Jobson, 20, who works part-time for a Peterlee firm and Stephen Phillips

Putting the finishing touches to a repleca cannon are Graham War, Gary hammell and Michael Wilkinson on a youth training schemem

Out of work school leavers at Howick Hall, battle to save a stretch of North East coastline from erosion in 1976

Tony Claxton, Stephen Hall and Shaun Scott who have all landed permanent jobs after a Youth Training Scheme

Ian Scarfe YTS trainee at NEI Reyrolles Hebburn receives tuition from instructor Ronald (Sandy) Sanderson

A class of trainees watches Instructor John Bell describe how to care for the animals which will come under their charge

Trainee bridge -builders (left to right) Gordon Frampton, Kevin Hall, Peter Grant, and Kevin Kidger, with supervisor John Steel at Boldon in South Tyenside

Trainee Hairdressers Julie Stott, Tracey Hudson, Jennifer Bell, Helen Brunger, Philippa Brough, Debra Linton, Catherine Clair and Melony Barnshaw take a shorcut to success, in 1985

Civic Trust Award winners (left to right) Patrick, foremand George Copeland, Steven, Gavin, Andrew and William. Sitting, Kevin

Showing off their work - YTS youngsters and Tanfield Railway official Derek Charlton with right, MSC assistant manager Fred Crow

Joinery trainee Terry Gough (left) with supervisor Billy Carr at a workshop in Walker

Northumbria Ambulance Service Youth Training Scheme Trainees at the start of their course with secretary Jacqui Slimin

Trainees at the I Tech department of British Shipbuilders training company in Hebburn - (l - r) Peter Lewis, Martin Ainscow, Chris Beard, Paul Arnott and David Hogg

The founding members of the Riverside Entretainments project for young people

The Business Training Centre in Sunderland - manager Hilary Guthrie and some of the girls on the course

Robert Goward, aged 19, of Hadston, Northumberland, at work on the Amble beach wall in 1979

Girls on a Manpower Services Commission task force in 1986, (left to right), Julie Strong, Mandy Oliver and Lynne Bradford

Malcolm Hodgson supervises trainee Keith Brown at the Tynedale Construction Training Group

Bricklaying Trainees at the Pallion Residents Enterprise, l to r, Frank Duffy, Ian Allan, Darren Ramsey and Dean McClusky

16 year old Peter Dodds (centre) watches soccer stars Wes Saunders (left) and Chris Waddle try bricklaying in 1984

21 year old "Winkle"Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year
21 year old " Winkle" Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year apprenticeship as a compsitor today. His workmates at Wilkinson Bros

He wanted to be alone but apprentice Willie Morgan, of 52, Porterfield Road, Renfrew, had to undergo the traditional frolic when he became a journeyman cooper in Glasgow, Scotland

Roll out the barrel. A coopers apprentice is rolled out in a smoking barrel as part of his passing out ceremony on completion of his apprenticeship. December 1967 P005007

A woman at the Midland Regional Womens Training College of the National Fire Service running repairs to the lorries and tenders as part of her training for her duties in the NFS. 29th May 1942

Workmen and spprentices who helped build the 12, 900 ton motor-ship King Theseus stand in the foreground feeling yet another job at the Blyth shipyard

Apprentice miner Paul Weedy and colleagues celebrate their record breaking draw at Westoe Colliery

Orphan boy training to be a cobbler. December 1953 D7472A-002

Orphan boy training to be a cobbler. December 1953 D7472A

Orphan boy training to be a cobbler. December 1953 D7472A-001

21 year old "Winkle"Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year
21 year old " Winkle" Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year apprenticeship as a compositor today. His workmates at Wilkinson Bros

These young apprentices help lay the cobblestones in between the tram lines at Beamish Open-Air Museum

Instructor Bobby Hunter demonstrates lathe turning to apprentice Ian Summerville

Striking a blow for womens lib is trainee welder Michelle Leach

Trainees Ron Cook, Tom Hallam and Derek McIntyre with instructor Allan Brooke (second left) at a new training centre in Washington

Young Stephen Wilson who is this years top engineering apprentice

Apprentice Norman Armstrong, aged 17, at work for the coucil as a sign writer

Overalls are the latest fashion for (left to right) Michelle Leach, Joanne Grainger, Susan childs, Shirley Coates, Carol McKie and Shirley Donnelly, apprentices at Head Wrightsons Teeside

Instructor Jack Laybourn works on a model of an armoured bridgelayer with apprentices Mark Foggin, left, and Ian Dixon

Barrel Story "Frissing the Cooper"Custom. December 1946 O5993-002
Barrel Story " Frissing the Cooper" Custom. December 1946 O5993-002

Evil May Day, the protest against foreigners living in London. Apprentices attacked foreign residents. Some of the rioters were later hanged. Date: 1517

APPRENTICE BRICKLAYERS
London County Council schoolboy apprentices learning bricklaying. Date: 1930s

MAKING GLOBES 1930S
Making globes: The girl is pasting newspaper over a globe shape. The globe is then baked in an oven until hard. The boy is preparing a half globe for joining. Date: 1930s

BOYS TAUGHT TRADES
Two boys in a workshop at the London School for Mental Defectives: the children are taught trades such as upholstery, carpentry and boot making Date: 1931

BOY APPRENTICES, 2 OF 3
Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 2 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890

BOY APPRENTICES, 3 OF 3
Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 3 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890

Nontron, Dordogne - Blacksmith High School. Date: 1906

Children in the field, 1860s. Found in the Collection of State Central Literary Museum, Moscow

Boy putting bast shoe on, 1820s. Found in the collection of I. Turgenev Memorial Museum, Moscow

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