Coal Mining Prints - The Pit Baths

Coal Mining Prints - The Pit BathsSigned print 46cm x 26cm "The 2pm shift we would ride at 9pm. Making sure to be the first out of the cage, we would burst through the ventilation doors, run down the pit heap, quickly deposit our cap lamps on the charging rack and into the dirty end of the pit baths, off with the pit clothes and into the showers, a quick swill down then through the clean side getting dried on the way. All this haste was to catch the 9. 30pm Economic bus that ran from

only the top deck high enough to stand upright so the men in the lower decks would adopt a crouching position

whom you see daily digging up the earth

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In earlier times the sugar content in the jam was the only way to quickly boost energy levels

"It’s a very risky business sketching in the foyer of South Shields Magistrates Court is not the easiest place to sit and sketch

This painting was produced as a prototype for a large mural in a new Galleries Shopping Centre at Washington

took shelter in a hollow at its foot

Signed print 23 x 77cm

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I made a quick sketch and some notes just before the sun was again hidden by heavy the winter sky

He was obliged to skulk off as best he could and has ever since lived in holes and corners

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