Picking Coal. Photographed by William Blake.
People foraging for coal during the Coal Strike, March 1912.
Pinnox junction, Tunstall
A North Stafford Railway locomotive is shown here, about to leave Pinnox Junction with coal from Whitfield Colliery around the turn of the 20th century. To the right, the Tunstall Lower Branch railway ...
Pit head frame at Lea Hall Colliery
View of the head frame at the downcast shaft.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts were started in 1954 and sunk to a depth of 1300ft (396m). ...
Pit mound, Longton
Photograph taken near Longton Hall Lane.
Pit ponies on strike
In 1921 there was a three months strike because of the mine owners refusal to match the salaries the miners had been receiving during the period 1917-21 of Government control of the mines.
For the ...
Pit-bottom Main Distribution Sub-station, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
View of a man operating switches in the unground 3,300 volt Main Distribution Sub-Station. On the right hand side are a row of generators, with a telephone and fire extinguishers on the left hand wall. ...
Pithead No.3 Pit, Cannock Chase Colliery
View of coal trucks at the pithead, with head frame, buildings and a chimney in the background.
Pithead showers at Lea Hall Colliery
This was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts were started in 1954 and sunk to a depth of 1300ft (396m). The first coal was produced in 1960, and the colliery's ...
Plan of a Coal Mine, Wednesbury
Drawn by Thomas Westwood in 1806, this plan and section of a coal mine at Wednesbury, on the South Staffordshire coalfield at first looks like a working diagram – interesting but not particularly visually ...
Plant's Hole outcrop pit, Lightwood, Cheadle
This outcrop pit is 'Plant's Hole', at Lightwood, Cheadle. During the General Strike outcrop pits (about 4 feet square) were dug for coal getting. From left to right: Arthur Plant, Jack Alcock, Albert ...
Plaster Shed Interior, Gypsum Works, Stowe-by-Chartley,
Interior of the plaster shed showing the spare pump, open hearth furnace, and gypsum crusher to the rear.
Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. ...
Pooley Hall Colliery spoil heap, Tamworth
Portrait of Mr George Taylor, Railway Engineer
George Taylor worked for West Cannock Colliery Co. and was the foreman of the gang who laid the Tackeroo (the nick-name of West Cannock No. 5 Pit) government railway line to connect the army camps. The ...
Pottal Pool Gravel Pit, Cannock Chase
Pottal Pool Gravel Pit was operated by Brocton Gravel Company which had been set up by Fred Ridley in 1930. Harold Foster, relative of Fred Ridley, built and managed Portal Pool gravel pit in the 1940s, ...
Pottal Pool Gravel Pit, Cannock Chase
Pottal Pool Gravel Pit was operated by Brocton Gravel Company which had been set up by Fred Ridley in 1930. Harold Foster, relative of Fred Ridley, built and managed Portal Pool gravel pit in the 1940s, ...
Pottal Pool, Cannock Chase
Pictured sitting in front of the chalet at Pottal Pool Lido are Harold Foster and his daughter Doris. Harold Foster managed the gravel pit at Pottal Pool in the 1940s.
Pottal Pool Lido opened on 3 ...
Potteries landscape from Navigation Road, Burslem.
Bert Bentley was looking east over Burslem from the top of Navigation Road. Just to the right of the bottle ovens is the short tower of St John's Church (a grade II listed building). The tower is the ...
Presentation at Littleton Colliery
Colliery manager Ted Blakeley (left) presents a framed copy of the Littleton logo to its creator (an un-named local teenager ). The logo resulted from a competition run locally to promote the colliery. ...