Lancashire Coal Mining Collection transferred from Salford Museum and Art Gallery
- Made:
- 1815-1996
Lancashire Coal Mining Collection transferred from Salford Museum and Art Gallery, including archive material comprising of 36 boxes of material including mining disaster ephemera, NUM branch records, personal memorabilia, photographs, minutes, reports, leaflets, correspondence, poems, certificates, pay tickets, slides, remembrance cards, memoirs, rule books, posters, newspaper cuttings, 7"record, college notes, drawings and maps relating to coal mining within the Lancashire region. The archive reflects donations by individual members of the public who used to work in the mines or had relatives employed in the coal mining industry. The archive also includes some administrative records of the Lancashire Coal Mining Museum at Buile Hill.
Turnkey, coal mining. C.1960
Games sticks
Type P5 battery lamp by Wolf Sheffield
circa 1930
Flask
1880-1950
endless rope haulage link
German model Usspurwies sliding arch base
1950
Deputy's stick, coal mining.
Wooden spade
Indicator display for signalling
circa 1950
Coal miner's tally stick
Board for storing lamp checks
Acetylene lamp, coal mining.
Miner's clogs
1920
Replica model of a coal tub. C.1966
1966
Fibrous hard hat
Electric push button for signalling bell
Magneto Safety Lamp Re-lighter
1950
'Mastabar' Comet conveyor belt cutting tool
Photometer from Agecroft Colliery
Fire extinguisher.
Coal cover, coal mining.
Red tally board, coal mining.
Surveyor's tripod with a theodolite
circa 1950
Stalactites, coal mining. Found in pump lodge of No.1 shaft. Calcium carbonate.
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Details
- Category:
- Coal Mining
- Collection:
- Lancashire Coal Mining Collection
- Object Number:
- Y2002.19
- credit:
- Gift of Salford Museum and Art Gallery