Coal Mining Prints - The High Speed Drifters

Coal Mining Prints - The High Speed Drifters38 x 28cm signed print "My last job at Whitburn Colliery was driving a development roadway between two coal seams. The upward gradient between the coal seams was 1 in 3 for example for every three yards we advanced the floor went up by 1 yard, quite a gradient to work in. The roadway was approximately 12 feet high by 12 wide. And with two, sometimes three compressed air drills in such a confined space the noise was deafening. This was the late 70s

"I spotted this character in a side street of the main shopping area of South Shields

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off with the pit clothes and into the showers

never daring to show his face except in the duskiness of twilight

The brass band going through their repertoire on the band stand

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the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs

By the late 50s most collieries had replaced the pit pony with machinery however a few were used to retrieve rails etc

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