View east from Abbey Lane, Abbey Hulton
This is a view south eastwards from Abbey Lane over the old Hanley and Bucknall Colliery dirt tips. The line of houses across the centre are on Abbey Road. Townsend is on the higher land in the distance....
View from Carmount Head, near Bagnall, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north from Woodhead Road with the waste tips of Norton Collieries to the left and Chatterley Whitfield to the right. Brown Edge is on the ridge running through the centre of the photograph.
View from Carmount Head, near Bagnall, Stoke-on-Trent
A view north west from Woodhead Road over Carmountside and the valley of the River Trent. The mound on the left is the waste tip of Sneyd Collieries and the mound to the right, the waste tip of Norton ...
View from Primrose Hill, Hanford
A view south east from the Primrose Hill area of Hanford. Almost in the centre is the "A frame" head gear and pit head buildings of Hem Heath colliery, now demolished. This is now part of the Trentham ...
View from Stile Cop near Brereton
This photograph was taken looking east from Stile Cop looking over the former site of Brereton Collieries. The last pit closed in 1960, the same year that production started at nearby Lea Hall Colliery....
View of Baggeridge Woods Coal Mine, Himley
This photograph appears to show the erection of a new winding gear, prior to a new pit being sunk.
The first shaft at Baggeridge was sunk in February 1899, mining a coal seam at a depth of 600 feet. ...
View of Littleton Colliery
Part of Littleton stockyard is picture here, with coal screening buildings in the background.
Cannock and Huntington Collieries Company started sinking both No. 1 Shaft and No. 2 Shaft in January 1877. ...
View of Littleton Colliery
Cannock and Huntington Collieries Company started sinking both No. 1 Shaft and No. 2 Shaft in January 1877. By 1881 the shafts were sunk to just over 400ft (121m) but severe water problems caused the ...
View of the Gypsum Works, Stowe-by-Chartley,
Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. The shaft was near Stowe. Gypsum was sent from Normanwood to London to make castings, particularly for dentists. ...
View towards Tunstall from the top of The Sytch, Burslem
The Sytch was the hill up to Burslem from Brownhills. The photograph is looking north east with Westport Road (formerly Liverpool Road) in the foreground. What is now Federation Road would be going off ...
Visitors at Hilton Main Colliery, Essington
A group of visitors pictured at Hilton Main Colliery, near Essington.
Hilton Main Colliery started production on 30 September 1924 with an output of around 350,000 tons. The pit remained in production ...
Walkers and grazing cattle - Willenhall?
Men walking in a what appears to be a disused industrial area. In the background are a chimney and a coal mining landscape. On the horizon are church spires.
Wall-Butts Colliery, Bilston: lithograph
Showing a coloured section of the strata in Wall-Butts colliery, Bilston (depth of various measures 112 yards.)'Standidge & Co., Litho., [lithographers] London.'
Watermills Colliery Chimney Shaft, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Remains of the Watermills Colliery chimney shaft, Apdale. Harry Corfield former accountant for Midland Coke Co. in the foreground.
Wednesbury - A Tilt Engine: pen and ink drawing
'A Tilt Engine for forcing of Water done by John Cooper Carpenter in the parsh (sic) of Wednesbury.' A working drawing showing twin buckets filled by a stream of water, which rise and fall alternately ...
West Cannock Collieries, No.1 Pit, First Aid Team
The only named members of the winning team are third from the right: Samuel Davies and second from right : Jeavon Burton. The caption underneath the picture reads: "West Cannock Collieries, No.1 Pit. ...
West Cannock Colliery Engine, "Stafford"
West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites:
No.1 plant (pit) was sunk in 1869 and closed in 1958 it had a downcast shaft and an upcast shaft.
No.2 plant was sunk in 1871, wound its first coal in ...
West Cannock Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
Pictured are Miners in the West Cannock Colliery Team, who won the Cannock Chase Coal-Owners Association Mines Rescue Challenge Cup in 1934.
Back row left to right: E Archer (Capt.), E Rutter, P Stanley ...