Mining Items

A Miners Rescue Hand Lamp. This small compact hand lamp Type NH-5 was used by the mines rescue teams. Made by Nife, Huntend Works, Redditch, England.  Made from steel and iron. Size 6″ x 3″ x 3″ inches. The lamp is battery operated and it has a hinged top to access the power unit. This lamp has a hanging-hook at …

A Miners Rescue Hand Lamp. This small compact hand lamp Type NH-10A was used by the mines rescue teams. Made by Nife, Huntend Works, Redditch, England. Made from steel and iron. Size 6″ x 3″ x 3″ inches. The lamp is battery operated and it has a hinged top to access the power unit. This lamp has a hanging-hook at …

Ceag Battery Inspection Lamp. A Ceag hand-held battery inspection lamp. Made from iron, carbon fibre, rubber, brass and glass. Size 8″ inches tall with a 5″ inch hanging hook. The cable is 7′ foot long and the wand, made of carbon fibre is 24″ inches in length tipped with brass with an iron armoured top.      

Betty Lamp. This is an old hanging lamp fuelled by oil. Made from iron. Size 4″ x 3″ x 4″ inches. The hook and spike is 6″ inches. It has a hinged lid, an inner wick holder and an attached spike with integrated hook, the spike for knocking into timbers or the hook for suspending the lamp. It’s dated to …

A Wells Unbreakable Oil Lamp No18. This is a large Wells oil lamp. Made from cast iron. Size 7″ x 10″ x 5″ inches, the handle is 6″ inches high. The lamp still has its original yellow paint.      

A. C. Wells & Co Unbreakable Safety Engineers Hand Lamp. From their works at Withy Grove, Manchester, England. Made from iron and brass. Size 6″ x 3″ inches. Dated 1884.

A Wells Unbreakable Oil Lamp No5. Made from cast iron. Size 6″ x 4″ x 4″ inches. The reservoir lid is a screw type and toothed for perfect balance when suspended from a hook. The lamp still has its original thick wick.  

A Wells Unbreakable Oil Lamp. This Wells oil lamp has a screw top for the wick holder and a back iron handle. Made from cast iron and iron. Size 6″ x 3 1/2″ inches. It seems to have retained its original black paint and red lettering. Used in the early 1900’s. 

Lancaster’s Steam Coal Collieries Ltd Coal Consignment Note 1912. This consignment note is for the shipment of 220 tons of Russell’s New Black Vein “Large” Steam Coal shipped on board the S.S. Karnak from Barry Dock. Size 8″ x 10″ inches. Dated 16th of December 1912.

South Wales Collieries – Mobile Winder Information File. This official N.C.B file for the use of the mobile winder in the case of any accident of breakdown of the fixed-winders was compiled by the N.C.B for the purpose of cataloguing the details of each shaft in the collieries of South Wales that was open in the early to late 1980’s. …