Coal Mining print - Bait Time

Coal Mining print - Bait Time41 x 51cm signed print "Twenty minutes mid shift was the allotted time for bait when all the machinery became idle. This was no picnic, no fancy biscuits or fairy cakes. Spam or jam 'door step' sandwiches washed down with tap water from a sometime rusty tin water bottle were the order of the day. In earlier times the sugar content in the jam was the only way to quickly boost energy levels. Fancy chocolate bars were unheard of."

It was about 2 feet (60cm) high

His stint completed

solving the worlds problems until the need to relieve themselves came upon them and it was then that the urinal reached it’s full potential and there was often a queue of fidgeting men waiting to use it

"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

contemplating taking the plunge

he was excluded from the terms of the truce

'He that is neither one thing or another

will often fall into unsuspected danger'

II and III

30 x 30 cm

loaded onto a stretcher tram and transported to the shaft bottom by a team of his workmates

I made a quick sketch and some notes just before the sun was again hidden by heavy the winter sky