Miscellaneous

Ebbw Vale Steel Iron & Coal Company Bronze Name Plate. This is a name plate taken from a piece of machinery from one of the collieries belonging to the Ebbw Vale Company. Made from bronze. Size 3″ x 2″ inches. The Ebbw Vale Steel Iron & Coal Company was a reconstruction of the old Ebbw Vale Company and was officially …

Ebbw Vale Steel Iron & Coal Company Brass Name Plate. This is a name plate taken from a piece of machinery from one of the collieries belonging to the Ebbw Vale Company. Made from brass. Size 4″ x 3″ inches. The Ebbw Vale Steel Iron & Coal Company was a reconstruction of the old Ebbw Vale Company and was officially …

Playing Cards. This set of playing cards was produced by the N.C.B. post 1947 but the actual date of these are unknown.

Playing Cards. This set of playing cards was produced by Waddingtons for the Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd, South Wales. This set is pre-N.C.B. Used around the 1930’s 1940’s. The Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd had these playing cards manufactured in two different colours, there are a red pack (as seen left and above in the main featured image) and …

Playing Cards. This set of playing cards was produced by Waddingtons for the Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd, South Wales. This set is pre-N.C.B. Used around the 1930’s 1940’s. The Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd had these playing cards manufactured in two different colours, there are a black pack (as seen left and above in the main featured image) and …

N.C.B. Toilet Roll. A toilet roll manufactured for the National Coal Board to be used in their colliery pithead baths. Made from thin brown paper. Size 4 1/2″ x 3″ inches. The roll has been scored in a zig-zag pattern along its width for tearing at every 6″ inches and the words “National Coal Board” is printed with black ink …

Panzer Chain Scraper Links. This is a pair of panzer chain scraper links. Made from Iron. Size 4″ x 3″ x 1″ inches.  These links were used to hold the scraper bars to the chain on the pans of the panzer chain scraper. The chain scrapers were used to convey the coal and stone from the coal face and also …

James W. Smallman – Rope Clip. A James W. Smallman – Rope Clip, this exact replica of the larger model used in collieries is either a tradesman’s sample or a commemorative model made by the James W. Smallman company of Nuneaton, England and given to members of the company. Made of iron. Size 7″ x 4″ inches. This miniature rope …

Underground Klaxon Horn. A small mechanical klaxon horn. Used in the mining industry to alert men to the dangers of moving machinery such as coal cutters etc or maybe to be alerted to any shotfiring. Made from iron and brass. Size 6″ x 5″. They were housed in a steel box with a lever to press to activate the plunger …

Domestic Fireside Pokers.  A set of domestic fireside pokers (Poker and Scraper) hand-forged in the blacksmiths shop at Rose Heyworth Colliery. Made from iron and plastic. Size 23″ inches. The poker handles (as seen left) are the control knobs from an underground Eimco Bucket.