The Tool Stall, South Shields Market

The Tool Stall, South Shields MarketSigned print 41 x 51cm "The inspiration for this painting came from one of the second hand tool stalls on South Shields marketplace. I noticed that the older generation handled the hand tools with what seemed a reverence, as if they were looking at an old friend or they had been skilled tradesmen and were familiar with un electrified drills, saws and wood planes that had been carefully looked after by their former owners." Robert Olley Artwork

The cages rattle past eachother half way up the shaft

No 2 Shaft 115 fathoms deep (210 meters or 688ft)

Original Oil On Canvas

I pretended to be filling in a crossword puzzle while doing rapid sketches of the activity in the foyer

Tyneside of course

The injured man was then made as comfortable as possible on an ambulance tram and hauled the three miles to the shaft bottom by a team of volunteers where a nurse or medic would be on hand to accompany him up the shaft to the medical centre to the Ingham Infirmary by the awaiting NCB ambulance

he was excluded from the terms of the truce

"The introduction of pit head baths had a dramatic impact on mining communities

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3 The colours of the recipients team or origination

Signed Print 26 x 50cm