Here are our recommendations for activities and resources to maximise the learning from this object. Use the Activities to get to know to your object first, then Get Creative!
This is a North Eastern Railways hand lamp made between 1854 and 1923.
It is an oil lamp. Sometimes paraffin and special lamp oil would be used.
This lamp would have been used by a train guard or a shunter to give signals to the driver. You can change the colour of the light by turning the handle. There is a carousel inside with red, green and clear glass on it which can be moved in front of the flame.
In your first online session your Education Officer will introduce students to the object and get them thinking and talking about it.
You could follow that up with these activities from the ‘Object activity ideas’ pdf, on the Introduce your object page.
1. Looking closer
2. Questioning and hypothesising
3. Drawing for looking and recording
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
Write instructions for a new guard to explain how the lamp works.
Museum name: Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum
Contact name: Sarah Gouldsbrough
Phone number: 01325 405541
Email: sarah.gouldsbrough@darlington.gov.uk
Learning from home? This download is full of ways to explore this object for students who can’t be in school.
Literacy Loans Home Learning – Head of Steam NER Hand Lamp KS1
This is a North Eastern Railways hand lamp made between 1854 and 1923.
It is an oil lamp. Sometimes paraffin and special lamp oil would be used.
This lamp would have been used by a train guard or a shunter to give signals to the driver. You can change the colour of the light by turning the handle. There is a carousel inside with red, green and clear glass on it which can be moved in front of the flame.
In your first online session your Education Officer will introduce students to the object and get them thinking and talking about it.
You could follow that up with these activities from the ‘Object activity ideas’ pdf, on the Introduce your object page.
We suggest you try these activities on the Get Creative page
Write a newspaper report about a hero guard who saves the day!
Museum name: Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum
Contact name: Sarah Gouldsbrough
Phone number: 01325 405541
Email: sarah.gouldsbrough@darlington.gov.uk
Learning from home? This download is full of ways to explore this object for students who can’t be in school.
Literacy Loans Home Learning – Head of Steam NER Hand Lamp KS2
Content coming soon.
