Mining Items

Miners Water Bottle. Made from plastic. Size 8″ x 5″ x 3″ inches. Makers “XPLOS” trade mark. These bottles were produced with the older black plastic screw tops and also the opaque vertically ribbed top (as seen in the image). Used through the 1960’s to the 1980’s.  They were sold in the colliery canteens without any cord for a hanging …

Miners Water Bottles. Made from plastic. Size 8″ x 5″ x 3″ inches. Makers “XPLOS” trade mark. These bottles were produced with the older black plastic screw tops (as seen in the image) and also the opaque vertically ribbed top. Used through the 1960’s to the 1980’s.  They were sold in the colliery canteens without any cord for a hanging …

Miners N.C.B. Pay Packet. Made from a waxed paper material. Size 5″ x 4″ inches. Used from the early 1970’s to the late 1980’s. You would have your pay docket on a Thursday, keep the docket but hand the small receipt to the paymaster who, at Rose Heyworth Colliery, would be in the canteen on the Friday, he would then …

Miners Docket Slips. A few payslips from Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery with one showing the intact receipt. You would have your pay docket on a Thursday, keep the docket but hand the small receipt to the paymaster who, at Rose Heyworth Colliery, would be in the canteen on the Friday, he would then hand you your pay packet.

Two Old Snuff Tins. Two old snuff tins. 1: “SP” Plain made by Gallaher Ltd. 2: “SP No1” made by J. & H. Wilson,Westbrook Mill, Sheffield.  Size 1 3/4″ x 1/4″ inches. Used through the 1940’s 1950’s.

J. & H. Wilson’s Snuff. Four various tins of snuff made by J. & H. Wilson. 1: Medicated No.99 Snuff, all tin and still sealed. 2: Finest Menthol Snuff, tin lid plastic base. 3: S.P. No1 Snuff, tin lid plastic base. 4: S.P. No1 Snuff, tin lid plastic base, still sealed. Sizes 1 3/4″ x 1/2″ inches. Used throughout the …

J. & H. Wilson’s Top Mill Snuff. A snuff tin made by J. & H. Wilson. Top Mill No1 Snuff. This snuff tin has a tin lid with a plastic base. Size 1 3/4″ x 1 1/4″ x 1/2″ inches.

Hedges Snuff Tins. Four various sized tins of snuff “The Snuff” made by Hedges, Birmingham, England.  Sizes (2 1/2″ x 1″ inches) … (2″ x 3/4″ inches) … (1 3/4″ x 1/2″ inches) … (1 1/2″ x 1/4″ inches). This brand of snuff was available in the colliery canteens and also in many local chemists shops. Used throughout the 1960’s …

C M Snuff Tin. The C. M. Snuff was made by Gawith Hoggarth & Co Ltd Kendal, England. Size 1 1/2″ inch diameter. This brand of snuff was issued in all colliery canteens.

Gallahers Chewing Tobacco. Gallahers chewing tobacco (called twist, a screw of bacca etc). This chewing tobacco came in a moist rolled piece of fresh leaf tobacco 7″ long, bent in half and inserted into the packet and sold in the colliery canteens. This make of chewing tobacco was used in the 1970’s 80’s and 1990’s. Size 5 1/2″ x 1 …