Jan Nimmo explains a point to Councillor John Armour.
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‘I REMEMBER my grandad cycling home from the pit black with coal and stopping to say hello,’ reminisced a visitor to the Argyll Colliery walkabout at Machrihanish Holiday Park, ‘Now I realise he was stopping to get his breath.’
Amid the events to mark 50 years since the mine’s closure in 1967, she said that it was worth remembering that health and safety was not the same and many miners suffered respiratory illnesses. This anonymous visitor’s comments were not meant to detract from the enormous effort Glasgow-based, Kintyre-born multimedia artist Jan Nimmo has put into building a body of work commemorating the closure and leaving many million tons of coal underground.