Coal Mining Prints - The Timber Tram

Coal Mining Prints - The Timber Tram41 x 51cm signed print "Coastal pits like Whitburn were prone to concentrated salt water seeping through the strata and some districts were festooned with salty stalactite like formations. Constantly working in these conditions resulted in irritating skin complaints such as boils and dermatitis" Bob Olley Robert Olley Artwork

'Beware of a friend with an ulterior motive'

The bottom boards of the wagons were knocked out spilling the coal onto the rail track

Sam Mendes and Hilary Clinton

'It is best to prepare for the days of necessity'

The caricature is a detailed pen and ink drawing

Signed print

Fillers worked in pairs and were allocated their own stretch of face to work

frosty night fell the Coal Bandits

loaded onto a stretcher tram and transported to the shaft bottom by a team of his workmates

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

the water squeezed from them between the wooden rollers of the mangle and then pegged to the clothes line in the back lane

74 x 74cm`