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An artwork by County Durham Sculptor and Artist Ray Lonsdale
It depicts a father talking to his young Son before he goes underground into a coal mine for the first time.
Da said
“Men don’t cry”
This is it Bonnie Lad
First shift down the pit,
Go with your head held high,
Take care where you stand,
Take more where you sit,
And don’t let the lads see you cry,
Forget the classroom
With its polished floors,
Some roads are not for us,
There are many schools
And this is yours.
Wiped his eyes and cursed the dust.
Ray Lonsdale
Experimenting some more with the 'pool of light' effect — it works well with the naturally rich tone of the leather and old maps. Processed with a touch of vintage, in Snapseed.
The daffodils in this still life photograph embody the essence of the spring equinox, as they reach their peak during this time of year. Their vibrant yellow hue is a symbol of the hope and joy that accompanies the emergence from the darker half of the year into the light. Their delicate petals seem to dance in the glow of the rustic miner's lamp, which casts a warm, inviting light on the scene. Alongside the daffodils sits a delectable treat - a rich and indulgent chocolate Tiffin, paired perfectly with a freshly brewed cup of coffee. This still life captures the essence of springtime: a celebration of new beginnings, renewal, and the simple pleasures of life.
Toy car on glass shot with Nikon D7000 and Nikon 50mm lens. Light provided by very cheap torch. A bit of fun.
Number 2 in my Bottles theme for this week. A gift from friends East Sussex UK. the contents were just as interesting.
Bumper crop of apples, this year, plus a precious few walnuts hastily picked before they're all snaffled by the squirrels!
eh! do I hear you all saying?
well, at Hebburn Colliery (on the banks of the Tyne) on January 9th 1816, was when a certain Sir Humphrey Davy first held trial's for his wire sieve shielded lamp for use in deep coal mines. The lamp became known to the world as the Davy Lamp. A modern version is now used for a very different purpose. At the Sydney, Athens, Turin and Beijing Olympics and the forth coming London 2012 games, to relay the Olympic flame.
I love the rich warm tones and patina of antique copper, brass and pewter — perfect with ripe late summer fruits.
Germany, Nordhein-Westfalen, Essen-Gelsenkirchen, Zeche Zollverein, Ruhr Museum, Benzinsicherheits lampen (cut from T)
Shown here is an array of safety pit lamps, manufactured in Bochum by the W, Seippel Grubensicherheitslampen und Maschinenfabrik (’20 -‘50s of the previous century). The Zwickau engineer Carl Wolf developed it in 1881 to detect mine gas (always a big risk in mines). It warns of impending gas explosions. The petrol-operated safety lamp had advantages in terms of luminosity and cleanliness compared to oil-operated lamps.
The Davy-lamp was the first generation safety pit lamp and was developed by Humphry Davy in 1815. It was called the ‘Daviaan’ in the Netherlands.
About mine gas: Coal mines frequently contain mine gas. It was discovered by Alessandro Volta in 1778 and is a gas mixture that consists of more than 93 % methane. Methane (CH4) is colourless, tasteless, odourless and non-toxic. Still, in high concentrations, the oxygen content for the respiration of the workers may become too low. And the stuff is highly flammable and explosive at certain mixing ratios with air (4½% - 14%). So, open fires in a coal mine can cause major and often disastrous gas explosions. In addition to an open flame, mining gas can be ignited by damaged gasoline lamps, electric sparks, and mining fires.
Mine gas is created during the carbonization of plant residues. Because the resulting coal strata are covered with earth and rock layers, the gas cannot escape, and it stays in the coal strata, sometimes under high pressure. The release of the gas from the coal layers starts as soon as they are exposed. Generally, the release is slow and regular, but the sudden release of large quantities of gas cán happen. Because the gas is only half as heavy as air, it will rise to higher places and gather there. Because these mines have powerful ventilation systems.
Based on internet sources like this.
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This is number 9 of the Zollverein (coal factory) album
and 937 of Minimalism/Explicit graphism.
Halde Rheinpreussen, Moers, Germany. Tower, height 30 m, on a coal mine heap. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halde_Rheinpreu%C3%9Fen
Way back in 1977, while browsing in a second hand shop in Brecon, I came across and bought this beautiful heavy brass Cambrian miners lamp. Within a few seconds I recognised its deep Welsh heritage, thanks to the well-worn engraving of the three feathers – among other things the emblem of the Prince of Wales.
This spurred me on to more research, and I soon discovered that the lamp was manufactured by E Thomas & Williams Ltd of Aberdare, which began business in 1860. The lamp has a milled tank and internal grid for protection against explosion, and weighs 1.37kg.
The brass label, attached to the lamp funnel with two copper rivets, reads ‘Lancaster Steam Coal Collieries’ at the top, and ‘Cwmtillery’ at the bottom. The large unique lettering in the centre reads ‘No 1 Pit 441’.
That refers to the first shaft at Cwmtillery Colliery near Abertillery, South Wales, which was sunk in 1843. Lancaster Steam Coal Collieries (originally Lancaster Spier & Co) owned the colliery, which by 1918 employed 2,760 men. It closed in 1982.
In the 42 years that I've owned the lamp, I can't begin to imagine how many litres of Brasso I've used to keep it in gleaming condition... but it's been worth it!
As miners go underground they collect two tally discs. one is given to the tally collector when a wagon is filled so that the number of wagons and thus the amount of coal produced can be counted, for wages. the brass tally is kept deep in the pocket. in the event of a collapse or explosion the tally identifies your body.
mining was a tough job. The Beamish mine is a drift mine, entry is by a tunnel that runs back into the hillside.
Objects and lighting chosen to to ally blend in, as well as themed around 'things that might be found inside an old barn'. Featuring another of my many (but never enough) old oil lamps — this one is an old mining lamp, of the 'Davy Lamp' type. First time I've ever dared light it, not sure it's terribly safe! Scene is lit almost entirely by the Davy lamp, with just a little ambient from the room. After a bit of fiddling, decided to take a three-shot bracketed exposure, (F2 increments) and HDR combine them, on my iPad, in 'Mobile HDR' which did a pretty good job. Finished processing in Snapseed. #stilllife #still_life #dairy #sackweight #iron #warmtones #fiftyshadesoforange #oillamp #davylamp #mininglamp #minerslamp #markmakingdesign #most_deserving #photowall #all_shots #uk_photooftheday #icatching #bd #hessian #seeds #hdr #hdrphoto #snapseed #canon60d #oxfordshire #uk
Images of miners with actual Davy type lamps are very rare, this miner in 1893 has a shielded Davy, he could on some types rotate the shield to stop strong ventilation currents extinguishing his flame. looking at all the layers of clothing he has on it must be pretty draughty where he was working, perhaps near pit bottom or near air doors.
When you think, this man's father may have been born at the end of the 18th century.
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The Davy lamp memorial at Piccadilly, between Kingsbury and Piccadilly.
The wall is built of bricks each of which has been bought by the families of miners who worked at nearby Dexter and Kingsbury Collieries.
The miner’s lamp lights up as an everlasting flame to commemorate those who have died and those who remember working down the mines.
Standing derelict is the remains of an ultra-rare GEC Z8435 lantern. This lantern originally held a curved glass bowl but sadly this has been lost over time. There is still a lamp fitted which is a GEC 400w MB/U type.
The swan neck type bracket carries a hexagonal spigot cap which shows it was (or was intended to be) fitted into the top of a 1950s concrete column originally.
A couple of these lanterns can be seen in action in this wonderful snap from 1975:
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The Davy Lamp sculpture in Hednesford.
Seen on the corner of Anglesey Crescent and Market Street, outside of The Light Works.
It was made in 2006.
It is a miners memorial, with over 3,500 named miners around it.
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The deaths of 45 men killed 50 years ago in a colliery explosion have been remembered with a service at the site.
A gas explosion ripped through the Six Bells colliery near Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent at 10.45am on 28 June 1960.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, led a service of remembrance at the site.
He also unveiled a memorial to the tragedy, a 20m high sculpture of a miner by Sebastian Boyesen.
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38697 passes the statue of Sir Humphrey Davy [ 1778 - 1829 ] - who came up with the Davy safety lamp for use in coal and other mines.I've written 2003 on the back of the photo - and we would have been there during the summer hols .
ITEMS OF SAFTEY WAY DEEP DOWN IN MOTHER EARTH SAFTEY LAMPS....CHEWING GUM BUT WITH NON ALUMINIUM WRAPPING....CHEWING STOPPED THE TEMPTATION OF SMOKING,,,,,,CANARY OR A BUDGIE....INDICATING METHANE GAS HARD HAT "LEATHER" .AND 100% TRUST IN THOSE YOU TOIL WITH lastly A WIFE OR MOTHER YOU CAN MAKE LIFE BETTER ON THE SURFACE ( BLESS THEM )
There's a light that never goes out.
into the second decade of the 21st century, it is hard to see any evidence of the Kent coal industry. Snowdown colliery still stands, all behind fences and barbed wire and there is the truncated East Kent preserved railway.
Northbourne s near to Betteshanger, which was abandoned in August 1989.
This Davy Lamp hangs in the Chancel of St Augustine.
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Diagram of a Davy lamp
The Davy lamp is a safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy.[1] It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called firedamp or minedamp.
Davy's invention was preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813. The more cumbersome Clanny safety lamp was successfully tested at Herrington Mill, and he won medals, from the Royal Society of Arts.[2]
Despite his lack of scientific knowledge, engine-wright George Stephenson devised a lamp in which the air entered via tiny holes, through which the flames of the lamp could not pass. A month before Davy presented his design to the Royal Society, Stephenson demonstrated his own lamp to two witnesses by taking it down Killingworth Colliery and holding it in front of a fissure from which firedamp was issuing.
The first trial of a Davy lamp with a wire sieve was at Hebburn Colliery on 9 January 1816.[3] A letter from Davy (which he intended to be kept private) describing his findings and various suggestions for a safety lamp was made public at a meeting in Newcastle on 3 November 1815,[4] and a paper describing the lamp was formally presented at a Royal Society meeting in London on 9 November.[5] For it, Davy was awarded the Society's Rumford Medal. Davy's lamp differed from Stephenson's in that the flame was surrounded by a screen of gauze, whereas Stephenson's prototype lamp had a perforated plate contained in a glass cylinder (a design mentioned in Davy's Royal Society paper as an alternative to his preferred solution).[5] For his invention Davy was given £2,000 worth of silver (the money being raised by public subscription), whilst Stephenson was accused of stealing the idea from Davy, because the fully developed 'Geordie lamp' had not been demonstrated by Stephenson until after Davy had presented his paper at the Royal Society and (it was held) previous versions had not actually been safe.[4][6][a]
A local committee of enquiry gathered in support of Stephenson exonerated him, showing that he had been working separately to create the Geordie lamp,[8] and raised a subscription for him of £1,000.[9] Davy and his supporters refused to accept their findings, and would not see how an uneducated man such as Stephenson could come up with the solution he had: Stephenson himself freely admitted that he had arrived at a practical solution on the basis of an erroneous theory.[9] In 1833 a House of Commons committee found that Stephenson had equal claim to having invented the safety lamp.[9] Davy went to his grave believing that Stephenson had stolen his idea. The Stephenson lamp was used almost exclusively in North East England, whereas the Davy lamp was used everywhere else. The experience gave Stephenson a lifelong distrust of London-based, theoretical, scientific experts
The lamp consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed inside a mesh screen. The screen acts as a flame arrestor; air (and any firedamp present) can pass through the mesh freely enough to support combustion, but the holes are too fine to allow a flame to propagate through them and ignite any firedamp outside the mesh. It originally burned a heavy vegetable oil.
The lamp also provided a test for the presence of gases. If flammable gas mixtures were present, the flame of the Davy lamp burned higher with a blue tinge. Lamps were equipped with a metal gauge to measure the height of the flame. Miners could place the safety lamp close to the ground to detect gases, such as carbon dioxide, that are denser than air and so could collect in depressions in the mine; if the mine air was oxygen-poor (asphyxiant gas), the lamp flame would be extinguished (black damp or chokedamp). A methane-air flame is extinguished at about 17% oxygen content (which will still support life), so the lamp gave an early indication of an unhealthy atmosphere, allowing the miners to get out before they died of asphyxiation.
The rarer version of the Z5530 (Mk2 Brookvale) with clear glass bowl and refractor ring.
By 2005, only 3 of these lanterns remained in Plymouth. Replacement works meant that by 2008 only 1 example remained, and luckily was saved for the collection.
The glassware dates the lantern to 1959, and although running 80w Mercury lamp originally, the lantern was running 70w SONT in latter years.
This photo courtesy of davidatblas shows a Z5530C in use in Plymouth in 1966 albeit minus its refractor ring:
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Scene today showing c1977 steel 'hockey stick' column:
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The Davy lamp memorial at Piccadilly, between Kingsbury and Piccadilly.
The wall is built of bricks each of which has been bought by the families of miners who worked at nearby Dexter and Kingsbury Collieries.
The miner’s lamp lights up as an everlasting flame to commemorate those who have died and those who remember working down the mines.
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in the days when mining was still an industry to be reckoned with in this country, every morning, just as dawn broke over the dusty streets of tyneside, these hard working cones would be off down the pit for the early shift, to a day of back breaking labour, followed by the long trek home, and an evening slaving over a pigeon coop and a hot whippet...
Surveyor looking through the sighting arms of his miner's dial towards the assistant's lamp. The assistant has the end hand loop of a surveying chain (22 links equals one chain, remember?) in his hand.
Entitled "surveying under difficulties". Must be catching up with a survey in workings which have flooded in the meantime. Surveyors were usually called in once a month or even longer periods to update the survey rather than being employed full time.
The Davy Lamp sculpture in Hednesford.
Seen on the corner of Anglesey Crescent and Market Street, outside of The Light Works.
It was made in 2006.
It is a miners memorial, with over 3,500 named miners around it.
Standing in the lamp cabin at Beamish Museum drift mine is this Ackroyd & Best Ltd. miners' safety lamp cleaning machine, manufactured in 1927 and equipped with specially designed brushes to clean all parts of a stripped down safety lamp.
The machine is now electrically powered, but was originally driven by steam pressure.
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Well i got to meet Sebastian Boyesen today , how happy am i to inspire such an Artist ~ The book will be published around June 25th before the ceremony at the Sixbells memorial park
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00szzhv/Angel_of_the_Valleys/
While i was at The Miner today was talking to a local who's Husbands father and his brother died in the disaster
Sorry for the poor quality low resolution uploads as you may have gathered this is my first commission for a book on the mining disaster.
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Tragedy at Six Bells
By David John Withers, Brynmawr
My father worked in the colliery all his life and I sort of followed him into the pit. I went to work in Six Bells Colliery at 17 years of age.
When I first went on the 0.18 coal face as a collier's helper I was introduced to my 'batty' Reggie Poe who showed me the tools we were using and two chalk marks 15 yards apart on the coal face. This was our working place, 15 yards long by 4-foot-6 deep by 5 feet high. I thought 'bloody hell' - it seemed a huge amount of coal to shift.
Although the other coal faces in our district were more modern with hydraulic roof supports, we were still using the older friction posts and linked bars. I've still got the scars where one of the bars came down on me!
We had quite a few problems with gas on the 0.18 coal face and the dust was killing. At times the conveyor would start up and you couldn't see each other until the dust settled down.
As boys we often refused to go onto the face because of the amounts of dust there - being youngsters we stuck together even when the officials threatened to send us home. It wasn't much of a threat as I was only earning about £6 odd!
I had been working about two years when the explosion happened. I was working on the 0.18 face at Six Bells on the 'turning shift' and arrived at the colliery on the bus to see the place in turmoil and heard that an explosion had happened. As the explosion had occurred at our place of work, we offered to go down and help as we knew the place, but the Rescue Brigade had it under control and wouldn't let us go down.
It's hard to say my feelings about it all. We knew there was gas there and they said a spark had set it off. I had mostly enjoyed the colliery up to then. I remember four of the men who died - I used to give them snuff with powdered bark mixed in as a joke - there was a good spirit amongst the men at the pit.
Once the explosion had happened it put me off. I finished and I put my notice in soon after. I was too young to lose my life in the colliery. If I had been working the day shift that week it would have been me. The explosion opened my eyes to the dangers and I went into the construction industry instead - I was always good with my hands. The pit made me grow up.
The deaths of 45 men killed 50 years ago in a colliery explosion have been remembered with a service at the site.
A gas explosion ripped through the Six Bells colliery near Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent at 10.45am on 28 June 1960.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, led a service of remembrance at the site.
He also unveiled a memorial to the tragedy, a 20m high sculpture of a miner by Sebastian Boyesen.
A new metal sculpture has appeared on the roundabout approaching New Marske, of a Davy Lamp, complete with miner and shovel - Very impressive!!!
The Davy lamp memorial at Piccadilly, between Kingsbury and Piccadilly.
The wall is built of bricks each of which has been bought by the families of miners who worked at nearby Dexter and Kingsbury Collieries.
The miner’s lamp lights up as an everlasting flame to commemorate those who have died and those who remember working down the mines.
A report written by Matthias Dunn the viewer of Hebburn Colliery of the trials of George Stephenson's and Sir Humphrey Davy's safety lamps at Hebburn Colliery on the 9th January 1816. The glass in Stephenson's Lamp broke and Dunn declared that the Davy Lamp was much the better starting a famous controversy which persists to the present day.