Presentation to Mr West, 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 ...
Protest march passing Lea Hall Colliery, Brereton
Many people in the community supported the miners strike of 1984/1985 and joined rallys and demonstrations. This march from Liverpool to London, here passing Lea Hall Colliery in Brereton, Rugeley. Over ...
Protest Rally at Central Forest Park, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph shows miners and their supporters meeting at Hanley Forest Park before marching into the city centre during the miner's strike of 1984. The miners had supporters across the country and ...
Quarry on Kingston Hill, Stafford
Sheep grazing in an old quarry on Kingston Hill, Stafford. The area is just north of Tixall Road and is now occupied by Colwich Crescent.
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, ...
Quarry sidings, Oakamoor
Moneystone quarry sidings at Oakamoor. The quarries at Cauldon Low and Froghall provided limestone for the agricultural and pottery industries. At one time thousands of men were employed in the quarrying ...
Quarry workers, Rudyard
Quarry workers removing a large stone from Whorrocks Bank quarry in 1887. It was later used as the stone for Rudyard's war memorial, installed for Queen Voctoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. It commemorates ...
Quarry, Lightwood
A sandstone and gravel quarry close to the Star and Garter Road. Possibly St. Bartholomew's Quarry.
Quarry, Lightwood
A sandstone and gravel quarry close to the Star and Garter Road.
Quarry, Lightwood
A sandstone and gravel quarry close to the Star and Garter Road. Possibly St. Bartholomew's Quarry.
Quarry, Lightwood
A sandstone and gravel quarry close to the Star and Garter Road.
Racecourse colliery, Cobridge
Racecourse colliery, Cobridge (1840-1941).This photograph could well be one of the oldest colliery photographs in existence.
Three shafts were sunk on the site of the old Hanley race-course – hence ...
Radford Bank Quarry, Stafford
A disused sandstone quarry on Radford Bank, Stafford.
Railway and coal wharf, Smallthorne.
Coal used to be transported from Norton colliery via a railway line. This line ran up the steep gradient, past another colliery near Community Drive to the top of the hill at Smallthorne. The coal wharf ...
Railway lines and colliery buildings, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
This photograph shows the railway sidings nearing completion.
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 ...
Railway Sidings near Rugeley
This photograph is believed to show railway sidings and coal trains at Lea Hall Colliery, near Rugeley.
Railway sidings, Silverdale Colliery
Coal wagons being filled up at Silverdale Colliery, photograph taken by a member of the Silverdale Community Play Association. Silverdale, which ceased production in December 1998, was the last coal mine ...
Reclaimed marl pit in Clanway Road, Tunstall
The photograph shows the abandoned and infilled marl hole that lay to the east of Tunstall High Street. The photograph is looking west from Clanway Street. In the centre is Christ Church and to the right ...
Red Quarry, Hollington
The Red Quarry at Hollington, Staffordshire. Note the gantries of manually powered cranes.
John Stevenson (1844-1916) was responsible for re-opening Hollington Quarry after a long period of redundancy. ...