The Long Wall Filler

The Long Wall Filleroil on canvas 60 x 40cm

"Whitburn Colliery closed 1968 and I was kept on to form a small team of salvage workers whose task was to retrieve the more valuable items from the pit

one: the faster - for coal drawing

to keep his district supplied with empty tubs

'Regardless of our wishes

'The bigger and more important you are

Fish & Chips can be personalised with your initials which will be placed on the white van (bottom left)

None of these were great stepping stones to an academic career

"For almost thirty years my mates and I have met in the Harbour Lights pub in South Shields at 1pm to play in the dominoe knock out handicap

a blind eye was turned

"This venue was a great favourite of my Mother Dolly and her sister

The work was commissioned by The Washington Development Corp

The post mortem examination results declared that there were no injuries to the body