North East Art Prints - Lop-A-Kitty

North East Art Prints - Lop-A-KittySigned print 59 x 10cm "The game of lop a kitty, or mont a kitty, was a very popular pastime for North East children up to the mid 1950's. One team is interlocked head to tail, the other team then tries to make them collapse by leaping on their back and bouncing up and down." Bob Olley Robert Olley Artwork Reproduction of these images without the express permission of the copyright holder is a violation of The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Colmans is known internationally for its top class food and has been visited by many celebrities from the world of show business

It is also unique and personal to the recipient

Bence assuring the fore-overman that after he had visited the other group he could find his way back

One of the last deeds of the loco drivers at the Westoe coal washing plant was to position the few remaining coal wagons near the high brick perimeter wall of Westoe Colliery

Image size: 23cm (w) x 30cm (h)

The coal would be undercut along the length of coal face then removed as it broke away and timber props inserted to control the fall of the roof behind the face

Signed print

community and way of life

Signed Print: Approx size 56 × 37cm

deputies and stone men searching through the abandoned workings

set out to locate the coal wagons

"In the 1800 & 1900s the men and boys of whole families worked down the same mine and when disasters occurred