Description:View of Baggeridge Woods Colliery, Himley, Staffordshire. This photograph appears to show the erection of a new winding gear, prior to a new pit being sunk. The first shaft at Baggeridge was sunk in February 1899, mining a coal seam at a depth of 600 feet. A second shaft was sunk in 1910 and the colliery came into full production in 1912. The colliery closed on 1 March 1968.
Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland.