I WONDER if your readers can help me with my hobby, which is collecting brass embossed colliery lamp checks or tokens and tallies as they are sometimes called.
These are brass discs with the name of the colliery on them as well as the miner's number. The miner would draw this check along with his lamp from the lamp room before going down the mine.
Some of the collieries I am trying to obtain a lamp check from are Highley, Kinlet, Bayton, Hunthouse, Chorley, Billingsley, Alveley, Madley Wood, Granville and Lilleshall.
I would very much like to hear from anyone who has memories of working at these collieries and any help they can give me in trying to obtain lamp checks would be very much appreciated.
PETER WALL
5 Cherry Grove
Norton, Stourbridge
West Midlands DY8 3YL
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