The Black Bull Inn, Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent
The Black Bull public house was on the corner of Bridge Street and Tunstall Road in Brindley Ford. It is nom longer vopen and has been converted into a dwelling. The slag tips on the right are from Robert ...
The bottom of Basford Bank, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking northwards from Etruria Road close to the bottom of Basford Bank towards Wolstanton Colliery. On the skyline are the houses in May Bank, built from the 1920s onwards.
The foreground is a jumble ...
The Chatterley Whitfield mineral line bridge in Fegg Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking north along Chell Heath Road towards Oxford Road in Fegg Hayes. The bridge is carrying the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield Colliery (off to the right) into Tunstall and ...
The Coal Miners' Address to the Public - A notice from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
So-called 'blackleg' labour has been a controversial feature of industrial tension for generations.
Traitors
When North Staffordshire's miners formed a trade union in the early 1830s, their masters ...
The Crooked House, Himley
The card has the following detailed information on the reverse:
"The “Glynne Arms,” Kingswinford is situated in the parish of Himley, Staffordshire about three miles from Dudley.
It is named after ...
The Drawing Office, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
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 of 1300ft (396m). The first coal was produced in 1960, and the colliery's ...
The Fowlea Brook Valley from Hollywall Lane, Goldenhill
A panoramic view west from Holywall lane in Goldenhill over the Fowlea Brook Valley towards Bradwell Woods. On the left hand edge is Westport Lake and the lines of coal trucks mark the route of the main ...
The George Hotel, Burslem
The George Hotel on the corner of Swan Square and Nile Street in Burslem. The present building dates from 1929. There has been an inn or pub on the site, named variously the George or George and Dragon, ...
The Grange, Burslem
The camera is looking south towards Shelton iron and steel works and the headgear of Wolstanton Colliery. The photograph was taken from the bridge near the northern end of the Grange mineral railway line.
The ...
The Hermit's Cave, Bromstead, Moreton
The Hermit's Cave was the nickname of a rock-cut room in a quarry at Bromstead Hill Farm. The entrance has since been filled in. The quarry was the source of stone used to build Moreton Church, the Vicarage ...
The High Shut, Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Highshutt Quarry, Hawksmoor, Nr. Cheadle, Staffordshire.
The area is now recognised as a Regionally Important Geological/Geomorphological Site (RIGS).
The last Sand Train, Oakamoor
A Yorkshire diesel shunting engine pulling a BIS (British Industrial Sand) 'Sand Train' pictured on its last day of operation on the Churnet Valley line in August 1988. Sand was carried from Hepworth's ...
The Miner's Manual - Handbill from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This single-sheet Miner's Manual was published in response to attempts by coal masters to crush the activities of organised labour. The notice probably dates from the early 1830s.
"This Act shall not ...
The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph captioned “where the victim was last seen alive” showing the offices of the Valley Colliery, since demolished, at the corner of Rugeley Road and Valley Road, Hednesford. The woodland ...
The Potteries
A general view of then Potteries, an image taken from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during ...
The Railway Line behind St. Luke's Church, Silverdale
This photograph shows a train on the railway line in Silverdale, the former mining village that lies just outside Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Silverdale line was originally opened to serve Silverdale colliery ...
The view from Hanover Street, Hanley
The camera was looking towards the west from Hanover Street in Hanley. In the murk on the left are the two winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery with the spire of St Margaret's Church, Wolstanton on the ...
The view from Primrose Hill, Hanford
The view north east towards Sideway from Primrose Hill in Hanford as it was in 1964. In the centre of the photograph is Stafford Colliery with its waste tip, once part of the Stafford Coal & Iron Company. ...