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 ...
Shelton Bar Steelworks
When we were a fully integrated steelworks we stretched from Etruria right up to the Grand Hotel in Hanley – we’d got the plant spread out. The by-products from the iron-making furnaces – what’s known ...
Shelton Iron and Steel Works slag heaps, Stoke-on-Trent
The view south east from the Dryden Road and Barrett Drive area of Cobridge towards Shelton and Hanley. The church tower in the centre belongs to St Mark's, Shelton. The large and small mounds arte slag ...
Shelton Iron and Steel Works, Etruria
A view of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria, showing Shelton Iron and Steel Works, Etruria. To the right is Etruria Hall, and in the distance are two spoil heaps made of the waste from local coal ...
Shelton Iron and Steel Works, Fowlea Valley, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the Emerson Road area of Cobridge looking south down the Fowlea Valley. The foreground was once part of the old Grange Colliery which supplied the steel works using the ...
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 ...
Sidings at Gypsum Mine, Fauld
Petrol locomotive at Fauld Gypsum Works.
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.
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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.
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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 ...
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 No 2 Mines Rescue Brigade, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The North Staffs Colliery Owners Association set up their first mines rescue station, in a converted house at Stoke in 1911.
This was not long after the Coal Mines Act was passed; meaning that it was ...
Silverdale No 3 Rescue Brigade, Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Miners Rescue Team are pictured here in all of their equipment. The National Miners' Rescue Service was formed in the early part of the twentieth century. Training in the area took place either at ...
Silverdale Vase
This vase was presented to Mr Francis Tyndall by Francis Stanier Broade, Silverdale 31st Jan 1859.
The crest pictures a boar with an arrow through its eye, a bird with long ears and a flag with the ...
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 ...
Site of the Blake High School (1), Marston Road, Hednesford, Cannock
The pit mound of West Cannock No.1 pit at Hednesford
Slag quarry near Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent
A slag quarry near Brindley Ford photographed from Bemersley Road. The slag came from the old Robert Heath and Lowmoor furnaces.