Original - Hewing 012

Original - Hewing 012Original oil on canvas image size 30x30cm. Frame included. Please email us to purchase this product.

many miners disliked the idea of communal showers

After six or seven pints of lager

This arrangement had been made between the striking miners and the loco drivers in the bar of The New Crown pub

"The introduction of pit head baths had a dramatic impact on mining communities

The token hole and seams of the tub were welded up to prevent seepage

'Plodding wins the race'

"A peculiar hermit known as The Hairy Man inhabited a cave at the North end of Marsden Bay near 'Velvet Beds'

but feigning to be afraid

There were often three of these drills going at once in a very confined space

'It is easy to despise what you cannot get'

tiddler catchers

set out to locate the coal wagons