The Westoe Netty Mug

The Westoe Netty MugNo one has ever been able to say they have drank from the Netty. until now! 11oz two tone mug Height 105 mm Diameter 80mm 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 and copyright infringements will be prosecuted.

30am the 45 year old back overman set out to visit two gangs of men working in two locations of the Bensham seam separated by abandoned workings around a mile and a half from the shaft bottom

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

Millions of mice

At first light Sunday morning a flotilla of assorted small craft chugs down the river Tyne towards the North Sea

Dirt from the pit also had a major impact at home

Print size: 38 x 28cm

What a smell

Image Size: 200cm x 80cm

"The lowest seam I ever worked on was at Usworth Colliery training face

46 x 26cm signed print

the water squeezed from them between the wooden rollers of the mangle and then pegged to the clothes line in the back lane

"It was a late January morning