please take time to check out Davids site , www.thewandofscience.net  its compleatly dedicated to the british miners safety lamp its a excerlant site packed with imfo ect & a great source for imfo on some very rare british miners lamps .

i am a x miner from county durham and now i am a collector of miners saftey lamps , miners tokens , old photos & postcards relateing to mining in the u.k , i started collecting old miners lamps in 1980 but unfortunitly i had to sell my collection in 1984 because i fell on hard times in the miners strike and with no wage coming in i had no choice but  to sell my lamp collection to make ends meat , back in 1980 when i started collecting there was very little imformation available on miners lamps , but now thanks to the internet things have changed and there is a lot of imformation on miners lamps ect along with some good sites that are dedicated to mining memobilia  which i will be adding shortly for any body who as interestsin mining memobilia to see , and i am all ways looking to add old miners lamps ect to my own collection especialy any thing relateing to the east durham collieries or the north east of england