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A joyful photograph of miners singing Christmas carols underground at Bersham Colliery, Rhostyllen, Wrexham in 1950.
Take a stroll down memory lane and browse this collection of items reflecting past Christmases in Wales ⬇️
https://t.co/iDrhw8Lcyf
Via @RCAHMWales
Northern art: "Pit Road, Winter" c1995...Painting by #NormanCornish (British,1919-2014)..Born in #Spennymoor #CoDurham..
Depiction of two miners on the road Cornish himself walked, almost every day for 30 years, to #DeanAndChapterColliery in #Ferryhill.
#PitmanArtist #Humanist
#Museum30 #Shadows: The built heritage of @Woodhorn's industrial colliery site casts incredible #shadows which were captured beautifully by #artist #ClareMoney during her residency & exhibition #ShadowsReflections in 2012. #art #heritage #community #storytelling #Northumberland
Lot 208 - VALERIE GANZ watercolour - entitled verso `Miners in the Bond, Cynheidre
🔨🔥 £1400 + BP
#watercolour #valerieganz #miners #colliery #cynheidre
#dyn that on 9August 1881 at Earnock Colliery, Burnbank the first use of electric lighting underground took place. 708 ft below surface 21 incandescent lamps by Joseph Swan in metal cages were switched on. The generator also powered lights in nearby Earnock House.
Northern art: "Pigeon Crees" 1953...Oil on canvas by #TomMcGuinness (British,1926-2006)..Born in #Spennymoor, #CoDurham..
#PitmanPainter conscripted into Fishburn Colliery as a #BevinBoy in 1944..
Celynen North Colliery, near Newbridge - I probably took these photos around the same time as the ones of Celynen South. There was something imposing about these mines. The winding houses remind me of temples or churches. @pplscollection @WindingH @LoveTheValleys
Hapton Valley Colliery I Roger Hampson (1925–1996) Salford Museum & Art Gallery
Account of a terrible explosion at Houghton Colliery, #onthisday 1850.
Northern art: "Early Morning Shift"..Oil by #TomMcGuinness [1926-2006] #PitmanArtist conscripted into Fishburn Colliery, as a #BevinBoy 1944
"End of Shift Tower Colliery"..Painting by #ValerieGanz [1936-2015] Born in #Swansea and known for her paintings of South Wales #coalminers
#onthisday 1812 tragedy struck our region as over 90 men and boys lost their lives at Felling Colliery #Gateshead #19thCentury #mining
This image shows members of the Cashiers Department at @Woodhorn Colliery, c.1910 - can anyone put any names to faces?
Northern art: "Bedford Colliery, #Leigh"..Oil by visual artist #RogerHampson [1925-1996] Born #Tyldesley. Motivated by working class life
Northern art: "Back Shift"..Painting by #TomMcGuinness [1926-2006] #PitmanArtist, conscripted to Fishburn Colliery in 1944..#BevinBoy.
New - Darfield Wasteland #Landscape #Painting
https://t.co/0vuREmWUYa?
#Art #Artwork #Acrylic #Mining #Colliery
#ItsGrimUpNorth
26 men & boys died at Houghton Colliery #onthisday 1850 - heroic rescue work saved over 100 more #northeast #19thCentury #mining
Bently Colliery South Yorkshire http://t.co/cUapIaBGOR #mining #coal #Yorkshire #landscape #art