Coal Mining print - Back Lane Of Eccleston Road 1950s

Coal Mining print - Back Lane Of Eccleston Road 1950s38 x 28cm signed print "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. There was already enough coal dust in the air from the railway line at the end of the lane that transported coal from Whitburn Colliery to the Westoe Colliery coal washer." Robert Olley Artwok

and gaps in the top of the door o provide much needed ventilation

In earlier times the sugar content in the jam was the only way to quickly boost energy levels

Favourite food

"The game of lop-a-kitty

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The ladies didn't care if they were prosecuted

We then pushed our stinking cargo outbye to the shaft bottom gingerly nursing the vehicle over every rail joint hoping to avoid a Tsunami of liquid excrement engulfing the pushers

There were no ear defenders in those days so we 'Drifters' tore bits from our shirts and plugged our ears

His makeshift cleaning tool

Chewing tobacco was also a substitute for smoking

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"The long wall coal face that my father worked on measured one yard high (almost 1m) and 200 yards long (183m)