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Saturday 19 May 2012

A BIG PROBLEM

How do you transport an Olympic Flame from Greece to the UK?

The answer is you use a version of the Davy lamp, developed by Sir Humphry Davy and others in the first two decades of the nineteenth century.



A Miners Safety Lamp Made in Eccles. This is the Protector Torch Relay Lamp.


HRH the Princess Royal receives Olympic Flame at Athens Handover Ceremony.
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