SLAG SCAR THE AFTERMATH: THORNE COLLIERY, YORKSHIRE

By Phil Whiting 1989 - 1990

Painting
Personal Narratives & Identity
Environment & Sustainability
Social & Political
Heritage & Archives
Post-industrial Landscape
Landscape And Memory
Coal Mining Heritage Of The North

Dimensions
100x120

I would often pass by Thorne Colliery on my way south from Hull as a youngster and while a student at Newcastle of Art in 1966 a coal miner friend reallocated from his Durham pit to Thorne. I made this oil on board painting from sketches made on site.