Diesel locomotive, Whitfield colliery
Most collieries owned their own locomotives for transporting the coal and men around the colliery site and to the main railway lines.
From the withdrawal of steam locomotives in 1967 until Whitfield ...
Diglake colliery disaster
On 14 January 1895, a terrible disaster occurred at Diglake colliery, Bignall Hill. Two hundred and sixty men and boys descended the pit that day. At 11.30am a spate of water from the old flooded Rookery ...
Diglake colliery, Audley, Newcastle-under-Lyme
On the 14th January 1895, 77 miners lost their lives at Diglake when an inrush of water from old workings flooded the mine. The mine was never re-opened following the disaster.
Diglake Colliery, Bignall End, Audley
Men and boys at the pit head headgear of Diglake Colliery, Bignall End, Audley. On the 14th January 1895, 77 miners lost their lives at Diglake when an inrush of water from old workings flooded the mine. ...
Disused screens at Leycett colliery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Dodge tipping lorry, Stretton, Burton Upon Trent
Lorry belonging to J.H. Allen of Stretton, Burton upon Trent. The man standing by the lorry is the late John Allen, the son of Mr J.H.Allen.
Dominic Street, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Dominic Street runs east off Richmond Street in Hartshill. Until the 1950s it was known as Gordon Street. The houses at the top ends of the street date from the early 1900s, those at the bottom around ...
Downing's clay pit, Tunstall
A view over the Clay pit at G H Downing's Brownhills brick and tile works. The houses running across the photograph are on Brownhills Road and Davenport Street. The camera is looking south east with the ...
Downing's clay pit, Tunstall
The houses on the skyline are on Davenport Street & Brownhills Road. The pit lay to the east of Westport lake and was open cast mined for Etruria Marl. Etruria Marl has been dug in North Staffordshire ...
Downing's clay pit, Tunstall
Looking over G H Downing's clay pit east of Westport Lake. The line of houses on the skyline are on Davenport Street and Brownhills Road. Today, the clay pit has been filled in and the land used for housing. ...
Dudley - Coal Field: lithograph
Section across the thick Coal field (from Kingswinford to West Bromwich.) Shows Dudley Castle, Wren's Nest, Barrow Hill and Pouk Hill. Also (in corner) shows a picture of the 'Old Form of Engine still ...
Dudley - Mine-workings: lithograph
'Plan showing the workings of the thick coal, and white ironstone mines.' Also showing the method of leaving ribs and pillars to support the superstructure.'By Job Taylor, Mine Agent and Surveyor, Kingswinford. ...
Dudley - Mine-workings: lithograph
'Ground plan of thick coal workings in part of South Staffordshire.''By J.O.Brettell Mining Engineer, Dudley.''Published by Standidge & Co., Litho., [lithographers] London.'
Dudley - 'Whimsey or Engine Drawing Coal' : lithograph
'Whimsey or Engine Drawing Coal,' showing an old-type beam engine working drum on which the hauling chains run (two pits). Also (inset) 'Skip filled with thick coal,' showing a low truck piled with coal, ...
Dudley - Wren's Nest Hill: steel engraving
'The Wren's Nest Hill near Dudley, from the Wolverhampton Road: Basaltic Quarry, Barrow Hill: The Priory, Dudley [shown as a ruin]: Diagram exhibiting the probable relative position of the Limestone and ...
Dudley Wood Road, Dudley Wood, West Midlands
A view looking north north along Dudley Wood Road, one of a series of photographs taken showing subsidence of buildings due to coal mining. Most of the buildings to the left of the photograph are suffering ...
Dust Extraction Equipment. Photographed by William Blake.
Exhibition stand showing dust extraction equipment made by W.E. Browning & Co., Leytonstone.
East Cannock wharf, Hednesford
The coal-loading wharf, East Cannock colliery canal basin near Hednesford. Cannock Chase coal was loaded to narrow boats for delivery to the Set midlands as fuel for steam powered boilers and later power ...