Aesop's Fables print - The Kid And The Wolf

Aesop's Fables print - The Kid And The Wolf'Outwit your enemy to save your skin' Signed Print 38 x 28cm Copyright of Robert Olley

and gaps in the top of the door o provide much needed ventilation

This was the late 70s before safety goggles and ear defenders were available

Preparing baths for husbands and sons

he was excluded from the terms of the truce

Framed original oil painting

However at the end of their shift some young drivers would occasionally race their ponies’ outbye for a small wager

mam would sit on her cracker (a small wooden stool) and proceed to wash the children

Hot water would be ladled into the bath from the boiler at the side of the cast-iron range

Signed print 23 x 77cm

There were no ear defenders in those days so we 'Drifters' tore bits from our shirts and plugged our ears

The overman and deputies who had advance St John Ambulance training were soon on hand to administer morphine that was strategically placed around the coal mine in locked metal cabinets bricked into the wall for such events

the early morning 4am shift meet the back shift men beginning at 10am