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Category No. 7
Telephones, signs, checks, pony gear and everything else from pit life. 3 posts.
A personal favourite: Undoubtedly, this stands as one of my cherished possessions. A 5-inch reproduction of The Lady Markham Lamp, meticulously crafted by Edward Barnard & Sons of London in 1906. Edward…
Read more about A 5-inch Edward Barnard & Sons silver replica of the Lady Markham Lamp →Introducing Antony Larkins to you, an avid collector and crafty restorer of mining and railway memorabilia, and the only person I know who also owns a train with three wagons. Antony’s willing…
Read more about A man with a vision: Antony Larkins’s photographs →Something different in this post: mining telephones. Who remembers the first phone below, the Davis of Derby speech powered handset, carried tucked in your shirt on the early power loading faces, you…
Read more about Mining telephones →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
