AN avid collector is appealing for colliery lamp discs from the Leigh areas' defunct mines.
Peter Wall, from the West Midlands, is seeking brass embossed lamp tallies which bear a miner's number.
He wants samples from Bedford Colliery, closed 1967, Astley Green (1970), Gibfield (1963), Nook (1965), Howe Bridge (1959), Golborne (1986), Gin (1955) and Sandhole (1962).
Peter said: "I would like to hear from any former miners who can remember these collieries working and any help they can give me to obtain lamp checks. It would be very much appreciated."
Peter can be contacted at 5, Cherry Grove, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY83YL.
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