My Granddad worked in the mines with this Davy lamp nearly 40 years ago in Doncaster. He told me a story about what it was like to work down the mine in Doncaster with only this small lamp to see.

This example of a Davy lamp is an early one manufactured by John Newman c.1817. Davy only began work on a coal miner's safety lamp in 1815. He devised a metal gauze around the flame to prevent ...

Davy Lamps, pit tokens and old watches will go on show when an exhibition opens looking at Wearside’s mining history. Washington F-Pit Museum is holding a display called Coal Face and it starts ...

They also detail the work that he and Michael Faraday did developing the miners’ safety lamp that came to be known as the Davy lamp. “The talk promises to be full of new and interesting ...