Mining Items

A Texolex USA Miners Helmet. Made from Texolex (a hard dense plastic material) with a leather sweatband and cotton webbing. A USA Miners Helmet with a full broad rim.    

A White Plastic USA Miners Helmet. A white plastic USA miners helmet, M.S.A Confo Cap. Made from plastic with an airtex sweatband and cotton webbing. Made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.  

Green Fibreglass UK Miners Helmet. An unusual green fibreglass UK miners helmet. Made from a fibreglass material with a leather sweatband and cotton webbing and cotton webbing chin strap.   Made by the Everoak Company, UK. This company also made motorcycle safety helmets. They may have been intending to start making a mining helmet and this may have been a …

An Aluminium USA Miners Helmet. Made from aluminium with a plastic sweatband and interior with a leather chin strap. Makers unknown.    

A White Plastic UK Miners Helmet N.C.B. An early type of white plastic helmet issued by the N.C.B. without the moulded hoops for a chin strap. Used throughout the 1970’s.       This image (as seen right) shows that the cap lamp cable holder clip missing, the vinyl strap that clipped the cable to the helmet very often broke …

A White Plastic UK Miners Helmet N.C.B. This helmet is the later type with the moulded hoops for a chin strap. Used throughout the 1970’s.         Back view (as seen right) showing the intact lamp cable clip.          

A White Plastic UK Miners Helmet N.C.B. This helmet was the new type used throughout the 1980’s. Made by Centurion, Thetford, England.  This modern type of helmet was designed to be up-off the head and didn’t seem to fit right, they looked too big and too high up, as if they would fall off your head.  

Miners Clogs. A pair of miners clogs.  Made from very thick leather uppers with wooden soles, fitted with tin toe-caps and with iron horse-shoe like protective sole and heel strips. Size 9″ inches high. These high ankle clogs were used from the 1920’s-30’s up until the 1970’s in the northern coalfields. They were also used in other heavy industries.

Rubber N.C.B. Ankle Boots. A pair of N.C.B. rubber ankle boots. Made from rubber with steel toe-cap. These are black rubber with a grey trim and toe-cap.  Size 8″ inches high. This type of boot came with three different coloured trims, grey, red and green. Used throughout the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s.

Wellington Boots. A pair of N.C.B. Dunlop steel toe-cap Wellington boots, shorter type. Used throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s. Made from black rubber. Size 12″ inches high. This certain type of Wellington boot came in two different height sizes, this one 12″ inches high and also a higher 15″ inch variant.