Coal Mining Prints - Mr Bence

Coal Mining Prints - Mr Bence46 x 26cm signed print The post mortem examination results declared that there were no injuries to the body, no broken bones or signs of poison, all the organs were healthy and that the only cause of death could be starvation. On Tuesday 2nd of April 1907 Danial Mark Bence got lost in Whitburn Colliery and starved to death. At 7. 30am the 45 year old back overman set out to visit two gangs of men working in two locations of the Bensham seam separated

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"Almost every miner carried a metal water bottle of three pints

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The original oil painting was exhibited in the town’s museum and library on January 1972 Olley’s second exhibition

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1 ton in the winter months and 3/4 of a ton in the summer months delivered by a Coal Board lorry

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

Boys as young as 15 were given this strenuous task

"Little Geordie

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still at a standstill waiting the arrival of mine inspectors and officials to assess the situation for their report