Coal Mining Prints - Winter 1950

Coal Mining Prints - Winter 195038 x 28cm signed print "My father, as an employee of the NCB like most people around us was entitled to a free monthly allocation of coal, 1 ton in the winter months and 3 4 of a ton in the summer months delivered by a Coal Board lorry. Almost every home back then was heated by coal, dangerous paraffin heaters or electric three bar heaters. Not all households were in receipt of a coal allocation so the back lane deliveries attracted a queue of

I excelled in all the wrong things

The bored bath attendant lazily swings her whistle in the humid atmosphere of the pool

After a stint on a hot

wrapped in sacking and carried out of the pit over the shoulder of a willing volunteer

Hobbies and pastimes

If an override occurs there is a safety device at the top of the shaft

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What a smell

his only means of light

'Better starve free

This was no picnic

pulling his arm out of the shoulder socket