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This blog, regrettably our first for sometime, looks at the role George Stephenson’s Lockoford Colliery had in promoting an important safety invention – the steam pressure gauge. Strange coincidence It’s strange on how different pieces of information can sometimes come together under the most diverse of coincidences. This particular ‘discovery’ occurred when I attended anContinue reading “Lockoford Colliery’s role in the invention of the steam gauge”