High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert (Bob) Olley is an artist born in 1940, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. Olley, a former miner who worked in the mines for 11 year from 1957 to 1968 is known as the "Geordie Lowry". He is best known for his painting "Westoe Netty" which was deemed "netty art" in 1972 and reached world acclaim in 1974. In 1996 Olley and his friends salvaged the Westoe Netty when the privy, the inspiration for his painting, built in 1890 was deemed outdated to the modern requirements of South Shields. In 1996, on the recently redundant land (ironically redundant due to the closure of the last coal mine), the outdated Westoe Netty, which stood on Chichester Road was taken down, after the rates were increased. The former miner and artist of the famous picture, with his friends raised a campaign to save it.

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