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Mossfield Colliery dirt tip, Fenton

The spoil tip on the right belonged to Mossfields Colliery. The creation of the tip has almost buried the site of Moss Fields farm. The camera is looking northwards and in the distance are the houses ...

Mossfield Colliery, Longton

The surface buildings and spoil tip of Mossfield Colliery near Longton. Dating from the middle of the 19th Century, the colliery produced coal for industry and households until closure in 1963. In 1889 ...

Mossfield Colliery, 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 ...

Mossfield Colliery, Longton

Mossfield Colliery looking west from Dividy Lane. Sunk in the 1850s, with up to four shafts, the mine closed in 1963. The prominent spoil tip has been profiled and landscaped and forms part of the 1970s ...

Mossfield Colliery, Longton

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 ...

Mossfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent

A view north west towards Moss field Colliery spoil tip and the remains of the surface buildings. The photograph was taken from the Adderley Green area. The piles of railway sleepers in the foreground ...

Motor spirit landing stage, Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove

Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, most of the coal being used for coke and other by-products. The colliery actually closed in 1932, but coke and other by-product production continued by using ...

Mount Pleasant, Fenton

This was the view northwards from between the allotment gardens that were next to Heron Cross primary schools, just north of Claud Street. Just above the fence is the route of the Stoke to Derby railway ...

National Coal Board Office, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent

North Staffs Area Office of the National Coal Board at 72 Leek Road. The NCB was formed in 1946, to manage the nationalised coal industry, and dissolved in 1994. The office is now Trent Building and ...

New Haden Colliery, Cheadle

Photograph of miners engaged in shaft sinking at New Haden Colliery, Cheadle in 1903. The Colliery opened in 1902. Mr. G Rushton was a miner there from 1930 to 1943

New Inn Lane, Hanford

A view south east from New Inn Lane towards Hem Heath Colliery. In the centre foreground is the New Mill estate, with houses still being built.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Planning Scheme Map, Knutton

The town planning scheme allocated areas or zones for different types of development such as residential, industry and public open space (the colour codes can be seen on the index map). Development had ...

Newfields Wharf, Tunstall

Newfields Wharf was at the end of the short Newfields branch off the Potteries Loop Line. In the background are buildings on High Street, Sandyford. The photograph was taken from the railway bridge in ...

No. 3 Pit, West Cannock Colliery

View of pithead buildings and winding gear. Coal trucks in the foreground are painted on the sides "West Cannock Colliery Co. Ltd Hednesford". West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites: No.1 plant ...

No.1 Main Ventilating Fan Drive, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley

The ventilation drive house had two electrically driven radial-flow fans manufactured by EEC of Wolverhampton. Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts ...

North Road, Burslem

The view north west along North Road from the junction with Sandbach Road. The railway bridge carried the Potteries Loop Line: Cobridge Station was to then left. In the distance are the potworks in Burslem ...

Norton Colliery from Harrison Road, Norton-in-the-Moors

Norton Colliery is in the centre foreground just beyond the houses. The spoil tip on the horizon belongs to Sneyd Colliery and the flatter, lower ground in between is the valley of the Bank Haye Brook. ...

Norton Colliery spoil tip from Burslem Golf Course

The view south east from Burslem Golf Course over the Ford Green Valley towards Norton Colliery spoil tip. Running through the middle of the photograph is the embankment of the Biddulph Vally branch line, ...