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
Rail chairs or saddles, coal mining tubways.
Testing instrument, coal mining.
Group of 18 coal tub motties from Old Meadows Colliery, c. 1930.
Ringrose type 1 1/4 - 3% gas sentinel alarm, 1925
Miner's lamp check, unissued blank
Fibrous hard hat, coal mining use
Fabric harness, coal mining. C.1930
1950
Magneto safety lamp relighter made by the Protector Lamp and Lighting Co. Ltd, Eccles, 1950
9 dummy wire detonators, coal mining. C.1930
1945
Miners' extra pit rations, made by CFP Ltd, 1945.
National Coal Board methane drainage pipe calculator with pouch, c.1973.
Coal miner's tally stick, about 1740, Wigan 4' seam.
Miner's lamp check from Hapton Valley Colliery, c. 1960
c. 1930
Pair of coal tongs, by Beacon, c. 1930
Wooden spade, eighteenth century.
Electromagnet on wooden stand for the opening of Protector Lamp and Lighting Co. Ltd oil safety lamps, c. 1930
1983
Key fob issued by Edward Ormerod & Co. Ltd., makers of safety detaching hooks and suspension gear
Colliery ticket from Sir James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale Collieries, 1784
Harness made by Siebe Gorman, coal mining.
Group of 8 rubber stamps, coal mining.
1949
Member of the British Empire medal, awarded to William L Thompson, 1949, with box
Electric cap lamp without battery, coal mining use.
Section of water pipe from a coal pit near Mansfield showing concretion, c. 1800
Broughton family colliery colliery ticket from Morresby, Cumberland, 1720 to 1737
Wooden pipe containing concreted deposit from Chadderton Colliery, c. 1800.
Shovel, coal mining.
Brick, stamped "A Mason Horwich"
Sign, from deputies locker room and bath
Sign - 'Treatment of electric shock'
Sign - 'Shaft signals...'
Miner's safety spotlamp.
Sign: 'Manriding on this haulage...', Deerplay colliery, coal mining.
Breathing apparatus, coal mining, Blackets Mills type, Aeropher Breath. App., from Boothstown Rescue Station.
Safety lamp unlocker made by The Protector Lamp and Lighting Co. Ltd. c1960. Strong magnet.
Miner's electric cap lamp and battery, cutaway for demonstration.
Surveyor's compass, in wooden box, coal mining use.
model pit head gear
Collier's shovel.
Tally stick, coal mining
Coal samples in cardboard box, coal mining.
Exploder key, c.1950
'ATM' Intrinsically safe telephone for use in mines.
Coal mining rescue apparatus part. about 1975. Oxygen flow regulator. British Oxygen Gases Ltd.
c.1950
Electric lamp, coal mining
Wooden pit prop from St Helens Collieries, c.1850.
'MSA' methane detector from Oldham Meadows Colliery.
'Ronson' razor blades.
before 1974
Evershed & Vignoles voltmeter
Laboratory test sieve, coal mining use.
