Aesop's Fables print - The Goose With The Golden Egg

Aesop's Fables print - The Goose With The Golden Egg'Greed oft o'er reaches itself' Signed Print 38 x 28cm Copyright of Robert Olley

After six or seven pints of lager

For a long while the issue of the battle was uncertain

which was the incline leading up to the shafts of Whitburn Colliery

The cages are guided by greased

'Those who pretend to be what they are not

The original oil painting was exhibited in the town’s museum and library on January 1972 Olley’s second exhibition

How different things are today

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

Bence was keen to find a short cut between the two groups of workers and the fore-overman agreed to show him a way leading him through the workings to the first set of men

This low tech method remained basically unchanged until 1900 when machinery was introduced to this form of coal mining and a rubber conveyor belt ran parallel to the face

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Aunty Peg (In the foreground of the painting) They always wore the same blue coats and linked arms where ever they went