Pit Profiles were a feature in the National Coal Board’s monthly publication, Coal magazine. The artist was commissioned by the NCB to visit different collieries to draw and talk to miners across the coalfields. The resulting images and interviews appeared in the January edition of Coal in 1949.
This image of shows miner John Jones.
This drawing on paper shows a miner leaning on a table with a lamp on his belt and a cap on his head.
