Collecting, preserving and sharing the history of miners’ lamps
Most old lamps reach us anonymous. This all-brass officials’ lamp still has its man, his certificate and 27 years at one pit.
Read more about Henry McCartney’s lamp: a Patterson B7 from Houghton Colliery →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 →A small brass carbide cap lamp sold in Australia around 1910. Paperwork says it was made here, but nobody knows who made it.
Read more about Lamp of the Day: the Demon Strike Light, Australia’s mystery carbide cap lamp →A rare brass Eloin lamp by Thornton & Sons of Birmingham made £8,800 at Lay’s in Penzance. Here’s what it is and how to spot one.
Read more about Record lamp: Thornton & Sons “Eloin’s Improved” safety lamp, early 1850s →The J H Rothwell aluminium and brass utility lamp was crafted by W E Teale from Swinton, and it bore the badge of the former. J H Rothwell, a prominent ironmonger in…
Read more about J.H. Rothwell aluminium and brass utility lamp by W.E. Teale →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
