TOKENS: Mementoes from the pits
I was a miner for over 30 years and am now retired.
By way of a hobby, I started collecting colliery checks or tokens. These are brass discs embossed with the colliery name.
Somewhere used as pay checks, others used them as a safety measure to indicate how many men were underground at any one time.
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W Bennett,
5 Edinburgh Avenue,
Bolton on Dearne,
S63 8DS