10th July 2022 Woodhorn – Classic Cars and the Ashington Group

We hadn’t been to Woodhorn since last year’s classic car show.

Whilst I enjoyed the car show, I really wanted to see the Ashington Group gallery, aka the Pitman Painters.

Sometimes naive but always touching, it is an amazing collection, a snapshot of 20th century life in the mining community. Being from a mining village myself, I could really relate to the images.

We took a longer look around the site too, so glad this place has been preserved so all can see what a coal mine was all about.

A short stop off at Blyth finished a lovely day.

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