Coal pickers at Wimblebury Colliery, Cannock
Photograph of coal pickers at Wimblebury Colliery, Cannock during the 1921 Coal Miner's Strike.
Wimblebury Colliery opened in 1872. In 1892 it was connected to the Cannock & Rugeley Colliery Company's ...
Coal pickers, Cheadle
Coal pickers during the General Strike, Cheadle. During the General Strike outcrop pits were dug, about 4 feet square. This one was named Embrey's No.17.
Coal strike at Florence Colliery in Longton
Coal mining strikes occured in North Staffordshire on a number of occasions during the twentieth century. This images shows people scavanging for coal on waste tips during the 1912 coal strike. Coal was ...
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Digging Coal out of Old Pit Mounds". Photographed by William Blake.
"Digging Coal out of Old Pit Mounds". People forage for coal during the strike during March 1912.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Labour Works A Seam On Its Own Behalf." Photographed by William Blake.
Coal Strike, March 1912. "Labour Works A Seam On Its Own Behalf." Taken at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Coal Strike, March 1912. Coal Pickers at Florence Colliery, Longton, Stoke-On-Trent. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Florence Colliery, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
People scavenge for bits of coal during the coal strike of 1912.
Named after the Duke of Sutherland's daughter, the pit was opened ...
Coal Tip and Marl Hole, Berry Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
Industrial landscape with a view of a coal tip and marl hole. Photograph taken by Longton photographer, William Blake.
Colliery building, Lea Hall Colliery
View of the area where the clean coal is loaded onto suppliers wagons.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts were started in 1954 and sunk to ...
Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
William Harrison's Colliery Rescue Team, winners of Cannock Chase Coal Owners Rescue Cup in 1939. This group photograph includes the six team members together with six competition judges and was taken ...
Colliery Winding House. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing the interior of a colliery winding house and two pit workers. The identity of the colliery is unknown.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...
Colliery Winding House. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing the interior of a colliery winding house and two pit workers. The identity of the colliery is unknown.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation ...
Conduit Colliery No.3, Norton Canes
Owned by the Conduit Colliery Company, Conduit Colliery No.3 was first sunk in 1858 but it was some years before coal production started. It was the largest of the Conduit collieries with three shafts. ...
Conduit Colliery, No. 3 Colliery, Norton Canes
View of colliery buildings, with three head frames or head gears and three chimneys in the background. Railway lines with coal tubs in the foreground.
Conduit Colliery Company had several collieries ...
Construction of Rugeley 'A' Power Station
A photograph showing the construction of Rugeley 'A' Power Station and Lea Hall colliery. The chimney and half clad boiler house are the power station and the lower concrete buildings behind the cottage ...
Coppice Pit, Brereton (1842-1908)
An exterior view of Coppice Pit, Brereton, near Rugeley. The postcard caption refers to the accident of February 15th, 1908 when the workings were flooded and three men (Albert Curtis, William Jarvis ...
Coulthwaite's Training Stables, Hazelslade, Hednesford
Tom Coulthwaite's stables are the red-roofed buildings in the left middle distance in this colour-tinted postcard view taken from Hednesford Hills, near the present day Raceway. They have since been demolished ...
Coulthwaite's Training Stables, Hednesford
Tom Coulthwaite's stables are the red-roofed buildings in the left middle distance in this colour-tinted postcard view taken from Hednesford Hills, near the present day Raceway. They have since been ...
Courtyard near East Cannock Colliery, Hednesford
This view is thought to be of buildings adjacent to East Cannock Colliery with the base of a colliery chimney stack at the rear to the right. On the left is the rear of a terrace of houses on East Cannock ...