Secretary Mrs. Y. Marshall presents Mr. Hindle with an electric clock on behalf of the training staff and other colleagues. Looking on are (left) Mr. T.I. Jeremiah (retired area industrial training officer) and Mr. A. T. Welton (industrial training officer).

A man who has trained thousands of young Burnley men to be miners retired last week from Bank Hall Colliery. Mr. Hubert Hindle, of Lancaster Drive, Clayton-le Moors, joined the mining industry in 1918 and has been at Bank Hall for 38 years. In 1949 he joined the staff at the training centre and became a preliminary juvenile instructor. Mr. Hindle's work has not been without difficulties. Around 1952 when there was a shortage of British miners, he found himself with the job of training, on one course, 107 Italians. After that he trained Poles and Lithuanians.

Mr. Hindle said, "We had to have an interpreter, but we managed." Mr. Hindle is planning a quiet retirement with perhaps a holiday in the Isle of Man this year. It is his favourite holiday resort and he has visited it many times in the past to watch the T.T.races. He is married with five children and five grandchildren. Yesterday, at a presentation at the colliery, Mr. Hindle received an electric clock from members of the training staff and other colleagues.