Mining Items

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.  

Rose Heyworth Colliery Surface Plan. Abertillery New Mine – Rose Heyworth Section. Rose Heyworth Colliery surface plan. The one and only original N.C.B. plan. Size 6′ x 2′ foot.  Rose Heyworth Colliery and Cwmtillery Colliery had always been connected below ground from the time of the former’s sinking between 1874-75, though in 1959 a new drift was driven between the …

National Coal Board File. N.C.B. File South Western Division, Area No6 – International Exchange of Students visit 1961. The file contains detailed information and plans on the Marine Colliery Trepanner and the Abertillery New Mine (Cwmtillery Section) Midget Miner.   This file has about seventy pages of information on the Marine Colliery and Abertillery New Mine (Cwmtillery Section), with many …

The Rose Heyworth Colliery Lamp. This lamp is of the “lockable” design, to stop the miner opening it underground. It has the sliding 5th false pillar to lock the bonnet and it also has the stamp of the “Three Feathers” above the name plaque. This lamp (seen in the featured image above and left) is from the Rose Heyworth Pit, …

The Cwmtillery Colliery Lamp. This lamp is of the “lockable” design, to stop the miner opening it underground. It has the 5th false sliding pillar to lock the bonnet and it also has the stamp of the “Three Feathers” above the name plaque. This lamp (seen in the featured image top and left) is from the Cwmtillery No2, stamped 464 …

The Cwmtillery Colliery Lamp. This lamp is of the “lockable” design, to stop the miner opening it underground. It has the 5th false sliding pillar to lock the bonnet and it also has the stamp of the “Three Feathers” above the name plaque. This lamp (seen in the featured image top and left) is from the Cwmtillery No1, stamped 108 …

Six Bells Colliery – Miners Oil Lamp. A Messrs Thomas and Williams Ltd of Aberdare, miners safety oil lamp No24. Made from steel, iron and brass. Size 10″ x 3 1/2″ inches. The lamp has the name Six Bells stamped along the brass air-vents (as seen in the image left) and also on the inside at the top of the …

Miners Oil Lamp Spikes. Made from iron. Size 11″ x 1 1/2″ inches and 10″ x 1 1/2″ inches. These oil lamp spikes were used by the colliers on the coal face, they would be hammered into the timbers and the oil lamp would be hung from the hole in the spike.

An Eccles Miners Protector Lamp. Made from chrome and brass. Size 10″ x 3″ inches. These re-lightable oil lamps were used by management, deputies and overmen etc, if gas was present they were trained to check for its presence using this re-lighter. Ordinary oil lamps issued to workers were not made to be re-lit, if gas extinguished the flame they …

Miners Oil Lamp – Open Gauze Lamp. This is an open gauze miners oil lamp. Made from iron and brass. Size 9″ x 3″ inches. Date unknown, though it has some type of a locking mechanism on the oil reservoir. Lamps similar to this were often used in Germany. All parts are numbered, as original. This lamp has an open …