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Industry / Mining
New Cumnock miner
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| Date From | | Miner down the pit, with bonnet and flaming torch.
Gerard Boland e-mailed some information, as follows :-
''This is not a flaming torch. It may look like one but it is an oil lamp. I have a photo of my father - a miner in Kames Colliery, Muirkirk - with the same oil lamp. It was also called a Teapot Lamp (Teepit Lamp) in Muirkirk. After speaking to and showing a 86-yr old miner the photograph, he told me it was called a Tally Lamp and it was filled with oil made from animal fat'' |
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| Date To | c1900 |
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| Theme | Industry |
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| Subtheme 1 | Mining |
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| Subtheme 2 | Coal |
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| Place | New Cumnock |
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| Parish | New Cumnock |
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| Format | Photo |
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| Resource Type | Black & White Print |
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| Source | Baird Institute |
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| Reference | E115 |
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| Creator | n/k |
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| Commissioned by | n/k |
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| Copyright Holder | ©copyright East Ayrshire Libraries |
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