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 ...
West Cannock Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
The miners were winners of Cannock Chase Coal Owners Challenge Cup 1943.
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 ...
West Cannock Colliery, Hednesford
An aerial view looking south over West Cannock Colliery on the southern edge of Cannock Chase. The road running from left to right in the top of the photograph is the A460 between Rugeley and Hednesford....
West Cannock Colliery, No 3 Hednesford
View of mine buildings and winding gear. One coal truck with the name of the colliery painted on side is standing by the railway.
West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites:
No.1 plant (pit) was ...
West Cannock New Colliery, Brindley Heath, Hednesford
The West Cannock Colliery Company's Number 5 Plant was sunk in 1914 and was known as as the Tackeroo plant or 'Fives'. It was closed in 1982. Coal trucks van be seen on the upper level and a workman ...
West Cannock No 5 Pit
AAn aerial view of West Cannock No 5 Pit and the causeway across Rising Brook valley, between Hednesford and Rugeley on Cannock Chase coal mine. A ballon advertising Staffordshire Building Society can ...
West Cannock No.1 Colliery, Hednesford
An aerial view of West Cannock No.1 Colliery which was situated near Pye Green, Hednesford. It was sunk in 1869 on Green Heath Common. the colliery closed 1958
Weston-on-Trent - Shirleywich Saltworks: sepia wash drawing
'Shirleywich Saltworks.' Showing a street of cottages, with several smoking furnace chimneys on the right. There is a wagon on the road and a man walking with his dog in the foreground.'T. P. W.,' [T. ...
Wetton - Lead Oar at Ectonhill: engraving
'Lead Oar of an Eight sided form at Ectonhill.'Anonymous.
Wharf Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Wharf Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is possibly the best known image from the collection. Blake, in a library entry for the North Staffs Field Club, describes ...
White barn Colliery, Knutton
A photo of the last portion of the White barn colliery at Knutton which was founded in 1800 by the Lawton family and demolished in 1902 by James Nind.
Whitfield Colliery employees
Whitfield employees of 1897 muster in the colliery yard in front of the Hard Mine haulage engine-house for their photograph.
Before the 18th century, mining was only a part-time occupation. As the ...
Whitfield Colliery Prize Band, Audley
Whitfield Colliery Prize Band from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. They are pictured in Audley having won the Silver Challenge Cup for 1924.
Whitfield colliery surface ambulance team
From the 1880's ambulance teams were formed at many collieries to administer first aid prior to the arrival of the local doctor. Besides medical officers at the various levels, there were ambulance and ...
Whitfield Colliery. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of Chatterly Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire ...
Whitfield Road, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north along Whitfield Road from near the junction with Bemersley Road. In the distance is the spoil tip belonging to Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. Just to the left of the detached house in the ...
Winding gear, 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 ...
Winstanley pit, winding engine
Steam winders were invented in the 19th century, and were eventually replaced by electric winders in the 20th century around the time of nationalisation. The winding engines are the biggest power-consuming ...