Original - Off The Way

Original - Off The WayOriginal oil on canvas 73 x 58cm

To maintain order a police inspector by the name of Liddle arrived on the scene at Leighton Street who was to turn the situation from a reasonably friendly atmosphere between the police and the striking pitmen to almost anarchy

Signed print size: APPROX 59 x 39cm

One of the last deeds of the loco drivers at the Westoe coal washing plant was to position the few remaining coal wagons near the high brick perimeter wall of Westoe Colliery

anniversary or birthday

"Many a Coal Board driver found himself confronted by an army of protesting women as he tried to deposit his cargo of coal especially on washing days when freshly washed clothes festooned the washing lines strung across the back lane

After the disaster on 16th January 1862 at Hartley Colliery

The injured man was then made as comfortable as possible on an ambulance tram and hauled the three miles to the shaft bottom by a team of volunteers where a nurse or medic would be on hand to accompany him up the shaft to the medical centre to the Ingham Infirmary by the awaiting NCB ambulance

especially if the Netty was engaged

A recent head and shoulders photograph

the landing lads at the loader end often took the opportunity to grab a catnap

with her young

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