Did everyone’s Nan have one of these?

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1. I’ve got one

2. Nope

3. My grandad did, but from England rather than my Welsh side of the family.

4. My grandparents do yeah

5. Christ my nan has about 20 some of them are tiny like a child’s lantern! Think she’s waiting for the pits to reopen or something lmao

6. No.

   But my daughter’s Nan does.

   🙂

7. Yes, passed down from family. My Dad now has two of these lamps.

8. Yup. And my Mum and Dad had one. I remember them buying it at Neath Market when I was a kid.

9. My great uncle Dai worked down the mines his whole life. He gave me one of these.

10. My great uncle Dai worked down the mines his whole life. He gave me one of these.

11. Yep, and my parents

12. Mine did

13. No. Mine didn’t work down a mine.

    😁

14. I still have mine

15. One? My grandparents had one either side of the fireplace with a brass horse pulling a coal wagon on the mantle, and several others throughout the house and shed

16. I used 1 when I worked underground, was presented 1 when I finished in Tower colliery

17. Yes! And the horse harness brasses hanging on the wall or by the fireplace

18. Nope, but my father was given one for spending a couple of decades under ground until the mines closed.