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All photos installed at the exhibition space at Queen’s Mill, Castleford ready for the After the Coal Dust exhibition that starts at the literary event on the 2nd October and runs until the 18th, Entry is free to the exhibition…

A selection of photographs by Bridget and me from our After the Coal Dust project will be exhibited at the Queens Mill Castleford from October 2nd to October 18th 2021. There’ll be around 40 prints on display and the exhibition…

We just wanted to share a review of the ‘After the Coal Dust’ book by the acclaimed Italian novelist, screenwriter and documentary film maker, Francesca Melandri. Many people will be aware of her ‘Letter from the Future’ that spread globally…

Stuart Bailey has been kind enough to send us a couple of his poems relating to the local collieries. WHELDALE DISASTER   It was there at the Wheldale Colliery, Castleford Two seams of coal were being worked in that mine…

The After the Coal Dust book will be available from the 1st October. It will feature over a hundred photographs by John and Bridget Gill as well as a few short, written pieces. The book will be available as a…

We’re looking to have a book with photos from the After the Coal Dust project and some of the other street and portrait images from my personal site (John Gill Photography) available late September/October time. If all goes to plan…