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Matt Sayers Art
A Mining Community
A series of 7 originals & prints inspired by the mining communities in and around Cannock, Staffordshire.
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The Monkey Row
Dads, sons and brothers walking home after a hard days work down the pit. Notice the little boy showing his friend a small frog in his hands.
Original sold
Coming home with dad
'Mum, Dad can you swing me!'
one, two, three swing!!
Generations
Celebrating the many years of the coal mining industry from 1940 up to it's closure in 1993. The three individual paintings have been framed together, each shows a generation of a Dad and his Son. The story of the pit being passed down from one generation to the next.
going to meet dad
'As seen on BBC News'
Dad's shift is over at the pit, so it's always a nice treat when mum and son meet him at the gate.
The last march
We come together, we stand together,
and we march as one!
I wanted to capture this momentous occasion - the day the miners made their last march out of the pit, proudly flying their flags through the streets of Cannock Staffordshire.
The Valley
The coal mine at Cannock Chase as it looked in the 1950s. By 1982, most of the local pits had closed and the Training Centre had closed, too. The site was taken over by the Council and in 1989 the Valley Heritage Centre was opened. Renamed the Museum of Cannock Chase in the mid 1990s, it tells the story of local coal mining and illustrates the social, industrial and domestic history of the Cannock Chase area
Wimblebury
'As seen on BBC News'
A winters day in 1950 at Wimblebury Colliery.
When coal extraction from Wimblebury Colliery ended in 1962 the colliery buildings were used only for training.
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