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Smallthorne Miners' Hostel, Chell Heath Road, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north east from the corner of Duddell Road and Chell Heath Road with Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip in the distance. A signal on the Biddulph Valley branch line is visible on the right. The buildings ...

Sneyd Brickworks Company's fireclay pit, Burslem

The fireclay pit was north of Bycars Lane. This photograph was taken at the north of the pit, just south of Haywood Road. The Etruria Marl from this pit was used to make firebricks, although Sneyd Brickworks ...

Sneyd Colliery and spoil tip from Sneyd Street, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north from Sneyd Street towards the Sneyd Colliery spoil tip that ran alongside Leek New Road. Some of the winding gear is visible behind and to the left of the tip. Immediately in front of the ...

Sneyd Colliery from Nile Street, Burslem

The camera is looking east from the top of Adelaide Street at the junction with Nile Street towards Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. The colliery eventually had four shafts mining house and steam coal and ...

Sneyd Colliery Land Sale Yard

An early view of Sneyd land sale yard, probably taken during the 1920s. Note the horses and carts. It is thought that the white building at the top left is the colliery office block. The view ...

Sneyd Colliery ropeway from Adkins Street, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north east from the end of Adkins Street towards the pulley wheel and pylon on the end of the aerial ropeway or cableway which connected Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks with its spoil tip. The colliery ...

Sneyd Colliery tip from Jug Bank, Cobridge

This is the view north east from near The Jug Inn on Sneyd Street in Cobridge. Sneyd Colliery spoil tip is on the right with the winding gear, chimneys and aerial cableway to the left. Just in front of ...

Sneyd Colliery, burslem

The photograph was taken from the entrance to the colliery from Sneyd Terrace which was just off Moorland Road in the area that is now Lingard Street. The camera is looking south east towards the head ...

Sneyd Colliery, Burslem

Sneyd colliery was modernised extensively between 1957 and 1964 and was linked underground to Hanley Deep pit and Wolstanton colliery. The mine closed in the 1970s, so had long since ceased to be operational ...

Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent

Sneyd colliery was located between Burslem and Smallthorne, and not at Sneyd Green some one and a half miles away. The coal wagons on the right would be filled and taken down to Burslem to join the loop ...

Sneyd Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent

A huge electrical generator at Sneyd Colliery in 1920. These generators were powered by steam turbine and were immensely powerful. They would provide almost all of the electrical power used by the colliery....

Sneyd Cricket Club ground and spoil tip, Burslem

Sneyd Cricket Club ground was just off Sandbach Road, in the shadow of the spoil tip belonging to Sneyd Colliery and Brickworks. Running through the middle of the photograph are the cables of the aerial ...

Spark Street, Stoke-on-Trent

The camera is looking eastwards along Spark Street (Park Street until the 1950s renaming) down towards London Road. At the bottom is the frontage of the Minton pottery works with one of the bottle ovens ...

Spoil tips and tramways near Fenton Road, Bucknall

This photograph was taken east of Fenton Road looking towards Bucknall. The disturbed land in the foreground is a mixture of spoil tips and embankments for colliery tramways.

St Margaret's Mission Church, Victoria Road, Fenton Low

The mission church of St Margaret and St Anthony in St Anthony's Row off Victoria Road in Fenton. Behind is the spoil tip of Berry Hill Collieries. A small church was opened around 1896 as a mission ...

Staff at West Cannock No.5 pit

Men and boys employed by the mining company assembled in front of a winding wheel. West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites: No.1 plant (pit) was sunk in 1869 and closed in 1958 it had a downcast ...

Stafford Coal & Iron Company Colliery, Old Sideway Road, Stoke-on-Trent

A view south east from Old Sideway Road area in Boothen towards the Stafford Coal and Iron Company's colliery. The two winding gear towers can be seen in the centre of the photograph, with the waste tips ...

Staffordshire Series Ordnance Survey Map, Knutton and Cross Heath, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This is one of seven hand coloured Staffordshire Series Ordnance Survey maps that show the areas surrounding Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre. The other maps in this group are signed in the bottom right ...