North East Art Prints - Cumberlands Scrap Yard

North East Art Prints - Cumberlands Scrap YardSigned print 46 x 26cm "This was the first oil painting I sold from a gallery. The scrap yard that was located in the Laygate area of South Shields has long gone and been replaced with a state of the art office block. The gallery rang the telephone number that is on the painting and asked Mr Cumberland Snr if he was interested in buying the work. He was and did. Fifteen or so years passed and a gentleman walked into my studio with the painting under

Constantly working in these conditions resulted in irritating skin complaints such as boils and dermatitis" - Bob Olley

"January 9th 1972 miners all over Britain came out on strike and the movement of fuel suppliers were halted by the National Union of Mineworkers

"Many a Coal Board driver found himself confronted by an army of protesting women as he tried to deposit his cargo of coal especially on washing days when freshly washed clothes festooned the washing lines strung across the back lane

After a stint on a hot

so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young

A Crab once left the sea-shore and went and settled in a meadow some way inland

Unwanted baccy juice was spat out

" - Bob Olley

Signed Print 46cm x 26cm

machine wash at 30 degrees

Signed print 59cm x 25cm

care must be taken not to fall into another