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"The Waterwheel"..1930s. Watercolour by #EricRavilious {1903-1942] Official #WarArtist, WWII..
Northern art: "Bedford Colliery, #Leigh"..Oil by visual artist #RogerHampson [1925-1996] Born #Tyldesley. Motivated by working class life
Northern art: "The Canal at Longport and a view of Hanley towards Cobridge" 1961..Oil by #JackClarkson [1906-1986] b.#Yorkshire..
#Potteries
Northern art: "Back Shift"..Painting by #TomMcGuinness [1926-2006] #PitmanArtist, conscripted to Fishburn Colliery in 1944..#BevinBoy.
Northern art: "Coast-Scene-With-Driving-Rain"..Oil by #TheodoreMajor [1908-99] Great individualist painter born in #Wigan..
#Expressionist.
"The King is dead!..Long live the king!"..
To think, I doubted him..
#AndyMurray #WorldNumber1 #Tennis #Hero.
Northern art: "Preparing to Mow" 1995..Oil by #EricBellis. Born 1946 near #Liverpool. (The Allotments Series).
"Happy Anniversary"..Oil by #GaryBunt. Born 1957 in #EastPeckham. Inspired by #ChristopherWood..#Primitivism.