These objects include the hand tools, safety equipment, personal items and machinery used by the miners of the Lancashire coalfields from the 18th century to the 1980s.
Coal Mining
1880-1950
Single-ended wrench with u-shape opening, around 1920.
Water flask, around 1920, used by coal miners to take water or tea underground.
Powder Bag- Metal container with carrying handle on a side. Manufacturer unknown. Part of Coal Mining Collection.
Vibration measuring device, coal mining. It is listed as 'Testing Apparatus for Gas Caps (2)' on Lancashire Mining Museum Inventory.
Notice regarding passage between mine cars, about 1940
Safety lamp unlocker made by The Protector Lamp and Lighting Co. Ltd. c1960. Strong magnet.
Group of 18 coal tub motties from Old Meadows Colliery, c. 1930.
Electric lamp for use in mining.
Timber from Wigan open cast mine, coal mining.
Sign, coal mining. (map) Air croft colliery.
Empty rectangular wooden box, cream, with 'Time books day shift' painted in green on the front, 'Bickershaw' written on the back. Lid missing as indicated by screw holes on back where hinges were.
Group of ten miner's lamp checks.
c. 1910
Richard Johnson, Clapham & Morris Ltd miner's safety lamp, c. 1910
Sign - 'Emergency, danger warning system...'
Acme tin ("miner's snap tin") for taking food underground.
Miner's lamp check
c. 1943
Coal mine telephone, "Wigan" type, about 1943.
Collection of four coal miner's tally sticks, 1740s, Wigan 4' seam.
Orsat gas analysis aparatus
Sign - 'Fire fighting equipment...'
Colliery ticket from Walton Collieries, 1736
Carbon monoxide indicator tubes.
c. 1900
Wooden lunch box, c. 1900
Miner's trade union badge
Photometer from Agecroft Colliery, made by Oldham & Sons, Denton.
Colliery sign stating: 'Helmets Must Be Worn..' C.1960
Group of 6 miner's pay checks.
Four first-aid tins, with worn red and white paint, by Acme, Bold Colliery. One tin contains two packs of finger dressing.
Two plastic hard hats, 'Mines Rescue', coal mining use
Fibrous miner's hard hat.
Larger 'smallman' patent haulage cable clip. C.1960
Mug, decorated with generic scene of coal mine, c. 1983
Sign, coal mining use.
Pocket watch, presented to James Roper, Under Manager, Plank Lane Colliery on his retirement.
Lamp battery, coal mining.
Rachet drive
Miner's lamp check, from Old Meadows Colliery.
c. 1935
Miner's pay check. C.1935
Coal cover, coal mining.
Explosive cannister or 'powder case' used by coal miners to carry permitted explosives underground.
Sign - 'Air measuring point'
c. 1920
Ryder's drink bottle, c. 1920
Core samples from Agecroft Colliery
Sledge hammer. Handle broken off at tool bar hole.
Metal plan/map tube container, coal mining.
Electric signal bell, 'The Wigan'.
Sign, coal mining.
Sign, coal mining, operating and safety instructions for electric winding engines.
