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 ...
Staffordshire Weights & Measures Department testing a weighbridge
Staffordshire County Council Weights and Measures Department checking a 40 tonne weighbridge. Probably on coal board property in north Staffordshire.
A weighbridge is a big scale set into the ground ...
Star and Garter Road, Normacot
The sand and gravel quarries can be seen to the left.
Staton’s Mills, Tutbury
Prior to 1890, J.C. Staton and Company were mining gypsum at Fauld and making plaster at Shobnall, Burton-upon-Trent. Tutbury Mill was converted from a disused cotton mill to a plaster mill in 1890. This ...
Staton's Bank, Gypsum Mine, Fauld
Stone sorting at J.C. Staton's Gypsum Mine, Fauld, near Tutbury. The locomotive was made by Bagnall's of Stafford in 1890-1. The mine entrance is behind the shed.
Mining at Fauld began in the 19th ...
Steam locomotive 'Toad', Cauldon
'Toad', one of the 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives which operated with the 3ft 6in cable-operated narrow gauge line connecting Froghall Wharf to the limestone quarry at Cauldon Low, which opened in 1849. ...
Still Plant Benzol House, 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 ...
Stone dust spraying wagon, Lea Hall Colliery
Locomotive carrying stone dust spraying wagon. The wagon in front is carrying bags of dust, and the wagon behind contains a generator and hose pipe.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk ...
Stone Views
This multi-view postcard of Stone shows scenes of Station Road, Sand Hole and the Plot Entrance on Old Road in Stone.
The middle image shows the Lion's Den caves which were located in the north of ...
Stonnall Church: pen and wash drawing
'North West View of Stonnall Church.' It stands on a hill above a quarry where men are working. It is a small building of the Gothic revival [1822], with three bays and a small tower.'T. P. W.,' [Thomas ...
Subsidence at Dudley Wood, West Midlands
A house badly affected by subsidence caused by coal mining at Dudley Wood, one of a series of photographs taken to show damage to buildings.
Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland.
Sulphate of ammonia storehouse, Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
A by-product of coke ovens, sulphate of ammonia is used as a fertiliser. Frequent and prolonged exposure to the it can cause gastrointestinal problems and skin and eye irritation. There is no evidence ...
Taking readings at Birchenwood Collliery, 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 ...
Talke o' th' Hill Colliery, Newcastle-Under-Lyme
An underground view of Talke o' th' Hill Colliery.
Talke o 'th' Holl Colliery, Laboratory
Talke o 'th' Holl Colliery Laboratory was a chemical by-product plant.
Tamworth Colliery and Brickworks
General view of the early workings of Tamworth Colliery, with the Brickworks in the foreground, Coventry canal in the centre, and Tamworth colliery in the background. The figure to the right in the photograph, ...
Tanner's fireclay pit, Cobridge
Tanner's fireclay pit was at the end of Purbeck Street (previously George Street), just off Leek New Road in Cobridge. This photograph shows the southern face of the pit, with the houses along Sneyd Street ...
Technical and Mining College, Anglesey Street, Hednesford
The college is a brick-built double-fronted building. It served as a college until the mid 1970s. It was converted into luxury flats in the late 1990s.
All mining trainees in the Cannock Chase area completed ...