Coal Mining Prints - The Clean Side

Coal Mining Prints - The Clean SideSigned print Approx size 38 x 28cm "The introduction of pit head baths had a dramatic impact on mining communities. Previously, miners returning home from work in filthy pit clothes with dirty faces stood out from other workers and so travelling on public transport could be humiliating. Dirt from the pit also had a major impact at home. Many miners' homes had no bathrooms and no running hot water. Preparing baths for husbands and sons, often on

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

Inside South Shields Magistrates Court

One team is interlocked head to tail

000 tons of coal per week with a work force of 1

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" - Bob Olley

"The Coal Strike of 1984/85 saw miners pickets barring the gates of many Northern Eastern pits

at Usworth Colliery where most of us new recruits did our underground 16 weeks training course toilet facilities were marginally better

Dog walkers

'Better no rule than cruel rule'

“Woe is me

They all agreed that Bence had taken a wrong turn