Collecting, preserving and sharing the history of miners’ lamps
Makers & marks
Who made your lamp, where, and what the plate tells you.
San Francisco, USA
Representative recreation of a pocket clinometer. Recreation based on “Watkins Clinometer 1892” by Storye book, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
London
Morley, near Leeds
Arras, France
England
Elsecar, Yorkshire
Representative recreation of a vane anemometer of the kind Biram invented. Recreation based on “Vane style anemometer” by Ka23 13, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
North America
Boksburg, South Africa
Monceau-sur-Sambre, Belgium
London
Cieszyn, Poland
Representative recreation of a benzine (white spirit) flame safety lamp. Recreation based on “Lampe de mineur Wolf M 379-440” by Jmh2o, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Auckland Museum’s miners’ lamp AM 68587-2, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Zwickau, Saxony (1884); later Duisburg (FWD)
Representative recreation of a benzine (white spirit) flame safety lamp. Recreation based on “Lampe de mineur Wolf M 379-440” by Jmh2o, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Auckland Museum’s miners’ lamp AM 68587-2, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Morley, near Leeds
Loncin, near Liège, Belgium
Representative recreation of a Marsaut-type bonneted safety lamp. Recreation based on the 1883 drawing of Marsaut’s lamp in the Annales des Mines, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Manchester
Representative recreation of a miner’s dial. Recreation based on “Haengekompass1” by Markscheider, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Wigan (founded 1860)
Representative recreation of a Clanny-type flame safety lamp. Recreation based on “Clanny lamp”, National Museum Wales, CC BY-SA 3.0, and “Davyho lampa” by Ikcur, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Rochdale area
Kolkata (Calcutta), India
Denver, Colorado
Derby
Representative recreation of a gas-testing lamp. Recreation based on “Pieler safety lamp” by Julo, public domain, and “Davyho lampa” by Ikcur, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Chicago, USA
Representative recreation of a cast-aluminium carbide hand lamp, not a Copper Queen. Recreation based on “Carbide lamp lit” by Scott Ehardt, public domain, and “Fort Furggels carbide lamp” by Kecko, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
USA
Sweden and Britain
Representative recreation of an electric miners’ hand lamp. Recreation based on “Lampe électrique ogivale” by Jmh2o, CC BY-SA 4.0, and “Petlamp” by Thiagominete, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Gateshead-on-Tyne
Representative recreation of a Mueseler-type safety lamp. Recreation based on “Mueselerlamp.png” by Thiagominete, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Leeds
Eccles, Manchester (est. 1873)
Newcastle upon Tyne
Manchester
Representative recreation of a Clanny-type flame safety lamp. Recreation based on “Clanny lamp”, National Museum Wales, CC BY-SA 3.0, and “Davyho lampa” by Ikcur, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Ans, near Liège, Belgium
Representative recreation of an electric miners’ hand lamp. Recreation based on “Lampe électrique ogivale” by Jmh2o, CC BY-SA 4.0, and “Petlamp” by Thiagominete, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Birmingham
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Representative recreation of a blasting machine. Recreation based on “Blasting machine CIL no 30” by Cantons-de-l’Est, CC BY-SA 4.0, and the Du Pont Pocket Blasting Machine, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Swinton, Manchester
Bochum, Germany
Representative recreation of an 18th-century frog lamp. Recreation based on “Froschlampe 18. Jahrhundert (3)” by 1971markus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
Heeley, Sheffield
Sythen, Haltern, Germany
Representative recreation of a crank exploder. Recreation based on “BGML Zündmaschinen” by Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shared under the same licence.
The plate-style badges show the wording to look for. They aren’t photographs of real plates.
“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”