Description:The ventilation shaft located in the old Stirrup and Pye Adderley Green Colliery on the opposite side of Anchor Road to that of Mossfield Colliery, Adderley Green, Longton. Mossfield Colliery was sunk in the 1850s, with up to four shafts, and closed in 1963. The colliery was located near Adderley Green near Longton with shafts over a quarter of a mile deep. The mine produced steam coal, coal for industry such as bottle oven and household coal. The main seam was the Cockshead Seam, up to 8 feet thickness of "clean coal". The colliery site is now part of an industrial estate.
Photograph courtesy & with permission from Bill Webster.