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A few letters punched into brass tie this J.H. Naylor lamp to the Moss Hall Coal Company and the Maypole Colliery explosion of 1908.
Read more about A Naylor lamp stamped “M H C Co”, and Wigan’s worst pit disaster →An A-H-G gas tester with its key, a Richard Johnson, Clapham & Morris lamp in Tamworth, a Naylor bi-fold and a wartime ARP lamp.
Read more about Market Watch, 31 October 2026: a gas tester, two Wigan lamps and an ARP blue glass →An early Wigan-made Clanny from the biggest colliery owner on the Lancashire coalfield.
Read more about Early Clanny-type J.H. Naylor lamp, once owned by the Wigan Coal & Iron Company →So, when is a miner’s lamp not a miner’s lamp? When it’s a radiator/sump heater! Included are pictures of lamps hardly distinguishable from miners’ lamps, in most cases made by mining lamp…
Read more about When is a miner’s lamp not a miner’s lamp? Part 1: radiator lamps →I only started collecting lamps in October this year (2021). The first lamp I purchased, on 11 October 2021, was a Wolf flame safety lamp 7RMBS from the UK. The 7RMBS was…
Read more about Gazza’s collection: the first three months →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
