‘This special world of mine is constantly changing and many of the people who inhabited in are no longer with us. Many of the places that once helped to make up that world have also passed into time.

The local collieries have gone too, together with the pit-road. Many of the old streets, chapels and pubs are no more. Many of the ordinary but fascinating people who frequented these places are gone.

However, in my memory and I hope in my drawings, they live on. I simply close my eyes and they all spring to life’
-Norman Cornish

includes: foreword by Mara-Helen Wood, Director of Collections, The Lost World of Norman Cornish essay by William Varley, quotes from Norman Cornish, many sketches, photographs, drawings and paintings, chronology

Paperback, 29 x 26.5cm

194 pages (159 full colour illustration)

Published by Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle

ISBN 0-947940-41-3