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Hughes, Olwen (Born and brought up in Rhymney. Educated in Wales, she later lived and worked in Leicester. She provided illustrations for various publications and her work appeared regularly in the Western Mail and Leicester Mercury. She was awarded MBE in 2002 ‘for services to the community’.)
China mug printed with an illustration of a coal mine by Olwen Hughes and a poem by Idris Davies 'In the places of my boyhood' describing closure of coal mines.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2000.98
Creation/Production
Hughes, Olwen
Tywyn Pottery
Date: 1990s
Acquisition
Donation, 26/4/2000
Measurements
top
(mm): 73
Height
(mm): 94
Material
bone china
Location
Big Pit National Coal Museum : Pit Head Baths Gallery (DC 3.07 bottom shelf)
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