Coal Mining Prints - Ravenous Rodents

Coal Mining Prints - Ravenous Rodents38 x 28cm signed print "Whitburn Colliery closed 1968 and I was kept on to form a small team of salvage workers whose task was to retrieve the more valuable items from the pit, ie electric motors and panels, coal cutting machines and roof supports. As the pumps were switched off and brought to the surface, the districts began to flood. Millions of mice, now starving, their food source of discarded bait scraps gone, began to migrate ahead of the rising

little outcome'

a balloon or a goldfish - which usually died a few days later

After six pints of lager what better way than to end the night with a couple of onion bhajis

single figure

From the surrounding pit villages

Signed print: 38cm x 28cm

"John the Gibber was a smuggler who betrayed his fellow smugglers to the Customs and Revenue

possed with the poss-stick

had been fitted with an internal re-lighting device he would have probably survived

the villains

Parliament compelled all coal owners to have two shafts for every pit

tiddler catchers