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With a heritage in mining lamps that spans more than 100 years, we‘ve been privileged to work with the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, supporting their new production, “Queens of the Coal Age” A true story, telling the events in 1993 when a group of four women took a stand in the face of overwhelming odds and the political will of the Conservative government of the day, protesting at the forced closure of the Parkside Colliery. Sneaking into the pit, they refused to come back up to the surface, and created a media sensation highlighting the plight of the mining community,…