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Description: | 1956.
Image shows a man who had retired from the Yorkshire Main Colliery where he had worked as a miner. This bare room, in a terrace house off Green Road, is where he ate and slept. The cast iron fireplace has ashes in the grate and there is a kettle on the hearth. a table in the alcove of the chimney breast is set out with items of food including a pot of jam. The miner is seated in a battered armchair. Elsewhere in the room, not seen in this image there are simple items of furniture and an iron bedstead. The photograph was one of a series commissioned by Leeds Headteacher, Reggie Marks to be used in a campaign to draw attention to poor living conditions and the need for a better standard of housing.
Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | miner Green Road | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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