Electric Lighting was first used underground in the early 1880s at
Trafalgar Colliery in the Forest of Dean. Prior to this the colliery was
lit by gas. In 1882 the first electric pumping plant was introduced at
Trafalgar.
Ian
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Ian Pope
Cartographer
Oxford Centre for Cartography & Geographical Information Sciences
School of Planning
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
01865-483368
Chairman, Forest of Dean Local History Society
http://www.forestofdeanhistory.co.uk
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