Davy lamp equality A crowd of spectators can

A crowd of spectators can be seen behind the wire fencing

A coach laden with passengers passing the front of a house before which two men are sitting at a table smoking pipes and drinking

Liverpool manager Bill Shankly watching a game in the stands

View of Lord Mayor William Gill presenting the City Sword to King George III at Temple Bar

Saturday 1st May 1976

Davy lamp equality A crowd of spectators canOriginal model for a miners' safety lamp by Humphry Davy, the narrow cylindrical gauze is shown housed under a glass dome on an ebonized base. Davy created the lamp for use in coal mines, he discovered that a flame enclosed inside the fine mesh does not ignite firedamp (methane and other flammable gases) thus preventing explosions. ca. 1815