GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Danzey for Tanworth Station: gwrdt2835

A photograph of the Tilley Lamp located on the concrete footbridge at Danzey for Tanworth station in the mid-1960s. The Tilley lamp derives from John Tilley’s invention of the hydro-pneumatic blowpipe in 1813 in England. During the 1920s the company had expanded rapidly after orders from railway companies. WH Tilley were manufacturing pressure lamps at their works in Stoke Newington in 1818, and Shoreditch, in the 1830s. The company moved to Brent Street in Hendon in 1915 during World War I, and started work with paraffin (kerosene) as a fuel for the lamps. During World War I Tilley lamps were used by the British armed forces, and became so popular that Tilley became used as a generic name for kerosene lamp in many parts of the world, in much the same way as Hoover is used for vacuum cleaners.

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