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Closed by the Tories (print)

Witts, Brian (Mr) (The artist worked at West Cannock and Littleton Collieries in the Cannock Chase coalfield as an electrician for 14 years and was a member of the Power Group NUM. He did the poster because he wanted to show how the industry was closed down after 1984/85 and to show who was responsible and how the British people were misled. The Savage Pen was a nickname he was given at the colliery due to several poems he produced about colliery management etc.)

The Savage Pen (Littleton Power Group)

"It is the work of an ex-miner and tells the story of what the Tories have done to the mining communities in the 10 years since the 1984-1985 miners' strike. Each colliery and workshop is represented in closure date order and statements made in 1984 have been used to show how people were misled about the future of the mining industry."