But Mrs Jones-Gilbert said: "We can take the smells, we can take the
coaldust, but we can't have this."
Also offered in the sale is a vivid depiction of a miner by artist Chris Griffin, in the unusual medium of fibreglass and
coaldust.
"It used to disintegrate more rapidly when you used to get the
coaldust blowing onto the premises.
My father used to tell me that story and how when he went home black with
coaldust from his first day in the pit, his mother stood at the door in tears to welcome him.
This still thriving market town, complete with gorgeous coaching inn, boutiques and upmarket restaurants, is a throwback to the days when the Vale of Glamorgan was the realm of wealthy landowners and industrialists, keen to find a little rural bolthole to take the smog and
coaldust out of their lungs.
Godber draws on memories of his own childhood in the enjoyable play which is impressively directed by Paul Viles, and you can almost taste the
coaldust as the action moves from a colliery tragedy to dreams of a better life for May's university-bound son, Paul.
Barbara Kruger and Glenn Ligon have embedded messages in their political art--Kruger in her "Your Body is a Battleground" (1989), and Ligon in his devastatingly effective, Johns influenced
coaldust stencil series, with passages reproduced from James Baldwin's "Stranger in the Village" (1953).
"She was the most beautiful person I had ever seen in my life," he recalls in his autobiography,
Coaldust to Stardust.
The lung tissue analysis supported the findings- the greater the concentration of
coaldust in the lungs, the more severe the emphysema.
Amazingly, the building was uncovered from beneath
coaldust and dirt at the former Ffos-y-Fran mining site in Merthyr Tydfil as work was carried out to return the land to its natural state.