Collecting, preserving and sharing the history of miners’ lamps
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Stilfontein Mine, South Africa – A Day in the Life of a Miner… Early eighties. (written in mining language) Why do you get up so early every day? It’s really not…
Read more about A day in the life of a miner: Stilfontein, South Africa, early 1980s →In the depths of my memory, a chilling recollection emerges—a time when I ventured into the shadows of the past, drawn to inspect the decrepit box fronts (drawpoints) far-down below my gold-bearing…
Read more about Eclipsed in desolation: a miner’s journey through the dark →A bridle from a pub near Barnsley, beryllium-copper shoes, and memories of working with the ponies.
Read more about Pit ponies: a bridle, two names and non-sparking shoes →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 →It’s been a lot of years since everybody at the mine carried an oil lamp, but in later years everybody carried one of these. The first ones I remember having had a…
Read more about Electric cap lamps →Pictured are two Indian lamps, JK Dey, 13, Old China Bazaar Street, Calcutta (now Kolkata). The one on the left is a non-relighter, the one on the right is a battery ignition,…
Read more about Glass Repairs 101: an Indian J.K. Dey lamp →The following writing was submitted by Bosuns Mate (a pseudonym) in NSW Australia. Bosuns Mate is an avid collector and restorer of miner’s lamps in NSW Australia. In this post, Bosuns Mate…
Read more about Total restoration of a Protector GR6S →Folks, introducing Dušan Mesároš from Slovakia to you this week. A time-defying craftsman of parts for age-old miners lamps. Many lamp collectors know Dušan as their go-to guy when it comes…
Read more about Dušan Mesároš: a time-defying craftsman of parts for old miners’ lamps →During my founding years as a miner (1990 to 2000) I had learnt early on and in the hardest of ways to do the right thing (or face the consequences) on the…
Read more about A story of nine lives →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
