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- ↑ The Journal, Exhibition for Durham "Pitman Painter" Tom Lamb, North East News, accessed 11 January 2017
- ↑ Norton, Peter. J., Tom Lamb The Biography of a Mining Artist, The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, (2014), p. 20.
- ↑ Norton, Peter. J., Tom Lamb The Biography of a Mining Artist, The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, (2014), p. 29.
- ↑ The Journal, Exhibition for Durham "Pitman Painter" Tom Lamb, North East News, accessed 11 January 2017
- ↑ Norton, Peter. J., Tom Lamb The Biography of a Mining Artist, The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, (2014), p. 64.
- ↑ Norton, Peter. J., Tom Lamb The Biography of a Mining Artist, The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, (2014), p. 64.
- ↑ Dyson, Henry, Tom Lamb, Henry Dyson Fine Art Ltd, accessed 2 December 2016
