Can you help Peter with his collection? (From Congleton Guardian)

Can you help Peter with his collection?

11:14am Tuesday 11th September 2007

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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.

I am trying very hard to obtain some lamp checks from the many collieries that once operated in and around the Stoke-On-Trent of the North Staffordshire Coalfield.

I have listed below the names of some of the collieries I am trying to obtain a lamp check from they are.

Norton Colliery - Foxfield Colliery - Birchinwood Colliery - Glasshouse Colliery - Fenton Colliery - Holditch Colliery - Apedale Colliery - Mossfield Colliery - Glebe Colliery - Park Hall Colliery - Podmore Hall Colliery.

Goldendale Colliery - Parkhouse Colliery - Madely Lycett Colliery - Silverdale Colliery - Victoria Colliery - Deep Pit - Florence Colliery - Chaterley Whitfield Colliery.

I would very much like to hear from anyone who once worked at and can remember these collieries working, and any help they can give me in trying to obtain any lamp checks from them would be very much appreciated.

Peter Wall - 5 Cherry Grove, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 3YL.

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