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The Lancashire Mines Rescue Service |
LES HAMPSON - PERSONAL PROFILE.
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The group photograph above shows 8 Initial Rescue Trainees from the Burnley Area, during their "Pass Out Test" at the Boothstown Station. Also shown are 2 Members of the Permanent Corps:- Tom Sherratt - back row/2nd. left and Mick Hogan - back row/2nd. right. Walter Guest (Assistant Superintendent) is on the back row/far right and Les Hampson (Instructor) is on back row/far left. The photograph was taken in 1963.
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LES HAMPSON - PERSONAL PROFILE.
I was born in Leigh Lancashire in 1929 and started working underground at Nook Colliery, Astley, on Monday the 10th. February 1947 just six weeks after the mines were Nationalized.
On the 14th. March, 1950 I completed my Initial Mines Rescue Training at the Central Mines Rescue Station at Boothstown which, at that time, served 65 N.C.B. Collieries, collectively providing around 120 part-time rescue workers for training. In addition there were 40 privately owned Licensed Mines (Small Mines) affiliated to the Boothstown Station.
On completion of rescue training I took my place in the Nook Colliery rescue team and then on the 10th. August, 1953 I joined the full-time staff at Boothstown as a Member of the Permanent Corps. I was later promoted to Instructor and then Assistant Superintendent and finally to Station Superintendent, from which Post, I retired in August 1987.
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