I WONDER if your readers can help me with my hobby, which is collecting brass embossed colliery lamp checks or tokens and tallies as they are called.

These are brass discs with the name of the colliery on them as well as the miner's number. The miner would draw this check along with his lamp from the lamp room before going down the mine.

Some of the collieries I am trying to obtain a lamp check from are; Amington , Alvecote C, Glascote, Pooley Hall, North Warwick, Griff Clara, Griff No 4, Birchmoor, Haunchwood (Tunnel), North Warwick, Arley, Ansley Hall, Kingsbury, Wyken, Craven, Stockingford, Binley.

I would very much like to hear from any one who once worked at and can remember these collieries working, and any help they can give me in trying to obtain lamp checks from them would be appreciated.

Peter Wall, 5 Cherry Grove, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY8 3YL.