NMMA Members' Articles

The following links will open pages containing various articles reproduced (mostly) from past editions of NMMA Newsletters. 

  1. An Advertising Token of Ackroyd & Best Ltd. - Flame Safety Lamp & Check Manufacturers. - Mark Smith 1999.

  2. Tower Colliery Lamp Room. - Alun Jones 1999.

  3. "High Peake Cole Mines in Darbyshire" - The Seventeenth Century Colliery Tokens of Richard Shallcross. - Graham Smith 1999 

  4. Tilmanstone Colliery Lamp Checks & Their Countermarks. - Mark Smith 1998.

  5. An Early Dated Colliery Check from Elsecar Low Pit. - Frank Burgin 1996.

  6. A Tribute to Queen Victoria from The Denaby Main Colliery Company. - Mark Smith 1999.

  7. Coal and the Sirhowy Valley - Ian Ellis 1999.

  8. Some Anglo-Irish Copper Mining Tokens of the late Eighteenth Century. - Mark Smith 1998.

  9. The Oldham Miners’ Strike Medallion. - Mark Smith 2001.

  10. In Search of Mr. Cresswell and the Derbyshire & Leicestershire Miners' Association. - Mark Smith 2001.

  11. An Enigmatic Miners' Federation Badge with an Interesting History. - Mark Smith & Dave Richards 1996.

  12. The Hartley Colliery Disaster Medal. - Jeff Gardiner 2001.

  13. Investigating the "Dotto" Colliery Check. - David Shaw & Mark Smith 1999. 

  14. "Polo" - The check with a hole. - Mark Smith 2001.

  15. Some previously unrecorded Pithead bath tokens from Tilmanstone Colliery. - David Shaw 2000. 

  16. Colliery Checks: An Introduction. - David Shaw (Revised Edition 2002). 

  17. The Pendlebury Miners' Token. - Mark Smith 2002.

  18. Similar but different: Colliery Checks and Dies. - David Shaw (1997). 

  19. A Twist of Tobacco – or A Pinch of Snuff ?  - David Shaw (2002). 

  20. Addenda to "A Twist of Tobacco - or A Pinch of Snuff?" - David Shaw & Graham Smith (2003).

  21. An Obscure Type of Early Twentieth Century Welsh Miner's Lamp - David Shaw (2003). 

  22. The Tokens of the Windy Hill Colliery, Greysouthen, Cumberland and other nearby Pits - Michael Finlay (2003).

  23. An Introduction to Nottinghamshire Miner's Association Badges

  1. The Tokens, Tickets & Passes of the Harton Coal Company: Part I - An Introduction to the Tickets of the Company's Private Passenger Railway. - John Whysall (2003).

  2. Blundered British Mining Tokens And Colliery Checks. - Mark Smith 2004.

  3. John Jones - Maker of the Pontyberem Lamp. - David Shaw 2004.

  4. The Tokens, Tickets & Passes of the Harton Coal Company: Part II - An Introduction to the Company's Tokens, Checks and Passes. - Mark Smith 2005.26/12/05

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