Corporate DS/UK/3500 Grassmoor, Chesterfield; Grassmoor NCB Training Centre; fl 1957-1981; NCB training centre Grassmoor NCB Training Centre National Coal Board NCB training centre fl 1957-1981 Grassmoor, Chesterfield 1957: opened

In 1952 it was decided that a training centre should be provided for new miners and the site of Grassmoor was chosen as the colliery had recently closed but the canteen and pithead baths were still in good enough condition to be reused. It was decided to centralise the area’s training from here and so small training facilities at Williamthorpe and Markham were both closed down by 1955. Due to this decision, it was also decided that the centre should train experienced miners in the newer technologies being used in the industry. When the site officially opened in 1957, it had cost £77,000 to build. On average it was to train around 400 men every 16 weeks. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) ‘Grassmoor’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/grassmoor.html ‘Grassmoor Colliery Merged With Williamthorpe’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1950-B.html and http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-5/B5-1967-D.html ‘Grassmoor Training Centre’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1952-4.html Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Garlic, S. L., ‘Bygone Grassmoor’, Derbyshire Miscellany, 8.5 (1979) Wain, K., The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North Derbyshire (Amberley, 2014) Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 26/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71026502 09/12/2021 c94e39e9-6767-4bc3-8ca3-a77bfd93ef7d