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The Lantern Boy

The Doncaster district has records of coal mining dating back several hundreds of years. In times of old children were employed underground to act as trappers opening and closing wooden trap doors to aid air circulation in the tunnels for the miners. Their wages were poor and hours were long .A ghost known as the lantern boy was believed to be a trapper who died in a tragic accident underground at Doncaster Colliery in 1800.Untill the middle century sightings of the lantern boy where common and the last sighting was in 1945 Barnsley | Barnsley | Chesterfield | Floughton | Glasshoughton | Grimethorpe | Nottinghamshire | Thornhill | West Yorkshire |