Coal Mining Prints - Joe The Girder

Coal Mining Prints - Joe The Girder41 x 51cm signed print "Joe was on permanent nightshift. He and his marra were responsible for transporting girders inbye. This was 1956 before helmets and safety boots were compulsory, each had a safety pin set horizontally above the peak of their cloth cap on which they hooked their cap lamp, both insisted on wearing casual footwear, a folded hessian sack doubled as a shoulder pad. Joe had the most unlikely physique for the work he did, but no one

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"Your children are in great danger

a 2 foot long stick was whipped into the roller

Signed Print 38 x 28cm

the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs

including number plate

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

Signed print 66cm x 33cm

Signed print 46cm x 26cm

its geographical location