91Èȱ¬

The 91Èȱ¬ last Sunday was a true story about a group of coalminers who attended an art class in their town of Ashington during the 1930’s and became exhibiting Artists, it is very interesting and is available to hear online until next Sunday, the 91Èȱ¬ webpage also has a slide show of some of the paintings and anyone in or visiting Northumberland can see some of the paintings at the Woodhorn Colliery Museum, I tried to find a link for the museum but couldn’t, the 91Èȱ¬ has a link to the webpage for as they are now known,

My father grew up in a south Wales mining village and my grandfather died due to related dieses so I always take interest in the mining industry particularly in Britain pre 1950, my father never ‘went down the mines’ the government sent him to London on a government apprenticeship scheme on leaving school because the mines could not offer work to all school leavers in 1928, the paintings are a piece of social history.