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Samuel Barlow Coal Co. trucks, Glascote, Tamworth

Five Ford Thames six-wheeler trucks belonging to Samuel Barlow Coal Co. Ltd. pictured at an unidentified colliery. the drivers are (from left to right): Jack Healy, Albert Taylor, Johnny Holmes, unknown, ...

Shelton Bar and Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

A view from Wolstanton Colliery looking towards Hanley Deep Pit and Sneyd Colliery. In the foreground are the Rolling Mills of Shelton Bar. Photographer: Herbert Ogden, Chief Area Surveyor for the ...

Shelton Bar and Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

A view from Wolstanton Colliery looking towards Hanley Deep Pit and Sneyd Colliery. In the foreground are the Rolling Mills of Shelton Bar. Photographer: Herbert Ogden, Chief Area Surveyor for the ...

Shelton Bar and Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent

A view from Wolstanton Colliery looking towards Shelton Bar Iron and Steel Works. The pit head gear of Hanley Deep Pit is in the distance to the left. Photographer: Herbert Ogden, Chief Area Surveyor ...

Shield winners outside Littleton Colliery

The shields are thought to have been awarded for inter-colliery sporting competitions. Left is Brian Mellor (Overman), right, Roy Metcalfe (Deputy). Cannock and Huntington Collieries Company started ...

Sideway from Rookery Lane, Stoke-on-Trent

This was the view eastwards from Rookery Lane towards the Staffordshire Collieries and Iron works in Sideway. Alongside are the spoil tips of the coal and iron works. This is now the site of the Bet 365 ...

Silverdale Colliery pit head, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This picture of Silverdale Colliery pit head was taken in June 1976. At the time it was one of the few remaining tandem head gears in the country and had been in existence for over 100 years. This image ...

Silverdale colliery tunnel, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This is an underground tunnel at Silverdale Colliery in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Silverdale, which ceased production in December 1998, was the last coal mine to close in the Potteries area. This image is ...

Silverdale County Primary School Colliery visit

Pupils from Silverdale County Primary School on a visit to Silverdale Colliery in 1980. Included are Paul Middleton, Martin Evans and Alan Myatt. Silverdale Colliery opened in 1830, to provide coal ...

Silverdale County Primary School Colliery visit

Pupils from Silverdale County Primary School on a visit to Silverdale Colliery 1980. Silverdale Colliery opened in 1830, to provide coal for the Silverdale Ironworks. A mechanisation programme began ...

Sinking of the staple shaft, Littleton Colliery

View of miners with a sinking shaft underground. The round cage suspended by the cable is descending into the hole. The miner in front of the hole to the left is using a pneumatic drill. Both miners are ...

Sneyd Colliery and spoil tip from Sneyd Street, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north from Sneyd Street towards the Sneyd Colliery spoil tip that ran alongside Leek New Road. Some of the winding gear is visible behind and to the left of the tip. Immediately in front of the ...

Sneyd Colliery from Nile Street, Burslem

The camera is looking east from the top of Adelaide Street at the junction with Nile Street towards Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. The colliery eventually had four shafts mining house and steam coal and ...

Sneyd Colliery ropeway from Adkins Street, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north east from the end of Adkins Street towards the pulley wheel and pylon on the end of the aerial ropeway or cableway which connected Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks with its spoil tip. The colliery ...

Sneyd Colliery tip from Jug Bank, Cobridge

This is the view north east from near The Jug Inn on Sneyd Street in Cobridge. Sneyd Colliery spoil tip is on the right with the winding gear, chimneys and aerial cableway to the left. Just in front of ...

Sneyd Colliery, burslem

The photograph was taken from the entrance to the colliery from Sneyd Terrace which was just off Moorland Road in the area that is now Lingard Street. The camera is looking south east towards the head ...

Sneyd Colliery, Burslem

Sneyd colliery was modernised extensively between 1957 and 1964 and was linked underground to Hanley Deep pit and Wolstanton colliery. The mine closed in the 1970s, so had long since ceased to be operational ...

Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent

Sneyd colliery was located between Burslem and Smallthorne, and not at Sneyd Green some one and a half miles away. The coal wagons on the right would be filled and taken down to Burslem to join the loop ...